Increased price charged to WaniKani subscription

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@Lederhosen

That being said, if they don’t ask for your location and calculate VAT in your cart during checkout when you first buy your subscription, or provide notice that VAT will be applied, that’s… a little gross. I went straight to Lifetime and and I don’t remember whether tax was calculated during checkout when I purchased it last December.

@CosmePT

That is, why was this billed now and not in my previous subscriptions?

I’d imagine this is a result of WaniKani trying to tie up loose ends with respect to laws that apply to customers within the EU. It’s probably related to recent changes like how fonts are handled:

Wanikani Fonts Update

We have just released a change to our font handling across Wanikani. Previously we used Google Fonts to deliver fonts to your browser, however there are privacy concerns when it comes to loading fonts from Google so we have taken the step to deliver the fonts from our own Wanikani servers. As part of this change we consolidated our font stack to use Noto Sans for all text on Wanikani which will provide a more consistent experience for all learners. Update: As some people have wanted more in…

The VAT is probably applied based on the payment method you use. I don’t know how it works in the EU, but in the US, when making an online purchase, we enter an address associated with the payment card. This is used to determine the sales tax.