Steam has announced that it will officially add sales tax to game prices in South Africa, according to a report.<\/p>\n
According to\u00a0Gamespot<\/a><\/strong>,<\/strong>\u00a0Valve sent an email to Steam partners stating it will add region-appropriate sales tax to all purchases.<\/p>\n These changes will take effect from March 2017 in\u00a0South Africa, with 14%\u00a0VAT\u00a0added.<\/p>\n Due to the change, the overall price of games on Steam may increase in March.<\/p>\n Steam users in South Africa will not pay more than the total price displayed on the storefront.<\/p>\n Previously, VAT was not denoted separately<\/strong><\/a> on the checkout screen, but the message \u201cVAT included in all prices where applicable\u201d was displayed on purchase screens.<\/p>\n This article first appeared on MyBroadband <\/a><\/strong>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n Steam has announced that it will be adding sales tax to game prices across a number of countries, including South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":112553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18473,8679,85],"class_list":["post-115637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-increase","tag-pricing","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Blizzard dropping support for Windows XP and Vista<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"