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[-] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think all that we learned was the 'trick' to mentally calculating 17.5% VAT (sales tax) by taking 10%, then halving it twice, and adding the three numbers.

Pretty useless now, as it's gone up to 20%.

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