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‘School Never Taught Us About Taxes,' Says Woman Who Wouldn’t Remember It Even If They Had (reductress.com)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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%.