A Tacoma Safeway was charging 16-20 percent sales tax. Here's how to get your money back.
If you’ve shopped at the Tacoma Safeway on Sixth Avenue in recent weeks, you may want to check your receipts.
Safeway has told its Tacoma customers they can seek refunds for a sales tax overcharge after an attentive shopper spotted the mistake on multiple receipts from earlier in the month.
Tairsa Worman, public affairs manager for the grocer, told The News Tribune via email Monday that “We apologize for this unfortunate glitch, and customers can take their receipts to their local stores for a refund on the overcharged sales tax.”
Rick Hammel of Tacoma told The News Tribune on Monday that he was charged sales tax amounts that ranged from 16 percent to 20 percent during different visits to the Safeway store formerly in the Highland Hill Shopping Center on Sixth Avenue.
After contacting the state Department of Revenue, he discovered the actual total tax rate for that location is 10.2 percent.
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