There aren&#x27;t that many countries with sales tax, most of them use VAT which is considerably worse than sales tax as far as tax burden distribution goes.<p>VAT is added to the price of the goods and is an intrinsic part of their price which means when they are resold VAT affects the final resell price even tho it&#x27;s only collected on the initial sale.
Say a car costs 50K, US uses sales tax Atlantia uses VAT both countries tax at 10% in the US one buys a car pays 50K for the car and 5K in additional sales taxes, a person in Atlantia pays 55K &quot;sticker price&quot; which includes VAT both paid 55K.<p>Both of them decide to sell the car after 2 years the resell price in both countries is calculated based on 50% of the original sticker price so in the US the car is sold for 25K and in Atlantia the car is sold for 27.5K.<p>Additionally since sales tax in most us states (iirc all but like 2 or 3) is only applied to tangible goods this means that most services tend also be considerably cheaper to the end consumer than in countries with VAT&#x2F;GST.