Charging 27% on a meal plus 10% and plus another 20% - is not a good way to do business and to treat us. With their greed they kill the hen with golden eggs!
It's 28% in total. 18% ITBIS and 10% ley....it's the law. With the new computer systems you need to upload your ITBIS tax each night to the government office.
You know much more than I do about the DR law and I do not dispute what you say.
What I can say after spending the past month in LT (not Sosua, sorry) is that maybe 40 % of establishments in the tourist area did the 18%/10% thing and 60 % of establishments did not.
I can say most , if not all the tourists we met (Swedish, German , American, Canadian) quickly determined the restaurants charging the 28%, and we almost unanimously avoided these places.
My point being, it is quite a competitive disadvantage when your business follows the law and the business beside you does not, with seemingly no consequences.
Perhaps I am off topic, but what the heck, so is 75% of this thread...
It's 28% in total. 18% ITBIS and 10% ley....it's the law. With the new computer systems you need to upload your ITBIS tax each night to the government office.
We only go to the honest places who do not have this snaky hidden "charges". Thank you!
restaurants which do not charge the 18% ITBIS, and the 10% tip charge, are in violation of the law. .....
Restaurants are allowed to include the tax in the price of the item instead of adding it later. Whether or not they actually pay what they owe to the Government is up in the air.
You beat me to it SKY. I can't speak on Sosua but in SD most restaurants have "impuestos incluidos" as a foot note on their menus where as a few add it on the menu price when you are handed the bill.
Whether or not they pay it to the government is not my concern. That becomes a government issue and has nothing to do with the taste of the meal.
Yes. EVERYTHING must be included in the PRICE. And if we like the PRICE we will eat in their place.
If on the bill we see "17%', "18%", "10%", "20%", etc, etc, etc - WE NEVER EVER COME BACK TO THEM.
Hastalavistababy!
Yes. EVERYTHING must be included in the PRICE. And if we like the PRICE we will eat in their place.
If on the bill we see "17%', "18%", "10%", "20%", etc, etc, etc - WE NEVER EVER COME BACK TO THEM.
Hastalavistababy!
You know much more than I do about the DR law and I do not dispute what you say.
What I can say after spending the past month in LT (not Sosua, sorry) is that maybe 40 % of establishments in the tourist area did the 18%/10% thing and 60 % of establishments did not.
I can say most , if not all the tourists we met (Swedish, German , American, Canadian) quickly determined the restaurants charging the 28%, and we almost unanimously avoided these places.
My point being, it is quite a competitive disadvantage when your business follows the law and the business beside you does not, with seemingly no consequences.
Perhaps I am off topic, but what the heck, so is 75% of this thread...
Yes. EVERYTHING must be included in the PRICE. And if we like the PRICE we will eat in their place.
If on the bill we see "17%', "18%", "10%", "20%", etc, etc, etc - WE NEVER EVER COME BACK TO THEM.
Hastalavistababy!
Some restaurants in Sosua include the taxes on the bill but list these charges in writing rather than on a type-written cash register receipt.