Yes, you’re looking at ~92% tax right there. Final price jumped from ~113 dollars (584BRL) to ~220 dollars.

EDIT: A bit of clarification, when buying from abroad there’s a flat 60% federal tax if the thing + shipping price surpasses 50 dollars. Then there’s a state tax that can vary between 17-25%, which goes on top of the total taxed value. Part of the tax is literally “tax of a tax”

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
    English
    531·
    7 months ago

    Oh yeah great idea. To combat black market activity, let’s make the open market extremely expensive to use.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.devOPEnglish
      18·
      7 months ago

      I think the real irony is that, up to 1993, it’s safe to say 99% of all computers we had here were contraband, because the taxes back then were even more absurd. Never mind the hyperinflation of the time.