Yeahhh sheesh. I've been caught off guard that way but usually it's just because I calculated the tax wrong. But to have it be almost 10%...thats harsh
I live in Colorado, my iPad was 700, I got taxed $68 for the iPad, which comes out to about 9.7% sales tax :(
In your sig, you say the sales tax on your iPad was more than the $60 case you bought for it. Where do you live? That's crazy. Where I live, the sales tax is 5.6 cents on the dollar, making tax on a $500 product about $28.