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Embarrassment for Japan’: PM wants to cut sales tax but cash registers say no
(www.theguardian.com)
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I don't see how this could possibly take a year to fix. Or even 6 months to allow a 1%. Did these idiots hardcode the tax rate into the machines? Did they not bother to allow that rate to change ever?
Likely? Corporations arent good at long term thinking and coders work according to those demands.