Thank you for replies so far. The sales tax in Sumter County is 7% not 7.25 % so that theory is unsupported by the tax rate. And no, each item is not separately taxed, rather the entire transaction is taxed based on the total price of taxable items. I have notified the state as well. I continue to encourage others to report their tax charges as they find them.
I did not speak to the manager as we did not discuss the charge until we were on our ride home. It seems most unlikely that the person responsible for programming the registers is working at 7 PM, no one was working there who appeared to be over 30 years old.
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