Can someone explain to me why after so many years of not having sales tax being applied to my cart, i am now paying sales tax on a new purchase?

P.S. this is for the state of NY, in the USA

Your state/country changed their laws to require digital stores to collect tax, I would presume. Or your state/country always required it and GOG simply wasn't in compliance with their laws. You could try googling (your state name) digital tax for more information.

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https://www.wgrz.com/article/money/nys-proposes-tax-streaming-digital-products-pay-for-public-transit/71-0ccfd026-df89-4e6b-933f-a4f67f02fc21 Seems like this is meant to cover public transport.

My best guess is that they were not in compliance, and now shifted to doing so, but for what reason?

They did not have a physical location in the USA, much less NYS.

Or did the cost of paying sales tax simply become too much for them and is now having customers pay for it?

Not to mention I think Fanatical started doing the same thing last year if i am not mistaken; with the reason being is that they cant continue to absorb the cost of the sales tax paid to to the USA (IIRC the reason).

Sorry, I edited my above post. It appears to be a new tax to help cover the cost of running public transit.

Public transport is basically a black hole for money to disappear into in this place; every year they cry not enough money, cannot get self funded, much less in budget and service is only getting worse. No surprise though that the public transport system is the excuse given.

Thank you for the response, and apologies for the rant above.

According to a post by someone on Reddit, it's a new foreign sales tax. They were charged tax for their purchase and they live in Ontario Canada. However, I would imagine it's just for certain locations or everyone buying games on GOG would know about it.

Just got hit for sales tax (WA state) for the first time just now.

I am guessing gog has been forced to comply and collects for all states that have a sales tax now.