Money Matters

2 things I've noticed here in Aus that I've found really handy, and I don't know why Canada and the US don't do this, and I think they should.

First of all, the smallest coin here is 5 cents. There's no pennies. So when the final tally comes up, it's rounded off to the nearest 5. 97 cents goes down to 95, 98 cents goes up to 1 dollar. If you pay through your savings account, it doesn't get rounded, you just pay whatever the amount is, but if you pay by cash, it does get rounded. It's nice not having a bunch of pennies floating around, and it also means there's very few 99 cent prices, they're all 5.95 or whatever. But what about tax, you say?

Tax is built into the price of everything here, so when you look at a price tag of $19, you pay $19 at the till, you don't have to pay an extra amount of tax on top of that. So you always know how much things are going to cost through simple addition, not by figuring out how much 13% of $19 would be. That's a pain in the ass in my opinion.

So yeah, that's my post for today. I really need to get out more...