Soon, the official website reopened. Although it did not wait for AirPower, Apple gave a bigger surprise. Apple's all-in-one sale price was lowered.
The main reason for this downward adjustment is the adjustment of domestic VAT rates.
According to the data, on April 4, 2018, the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation issued the “Notice on adjusting the VAT tax rate”.
'If a taxpayer generates value-added tax sales activities or imported goods, which originally applied 17% and 11% tax rates, the tax rate will be adjusted to 16% and 10%' respectively. At the same time, 'this notice has been effective since May 1, 2018.' carried out. '
In other words, Apple products that originally had been levied on 17% of the value-added tax had already been deducted from the same day and were finally reflected in the downward adjustment of the sales price.
In the official website, iPhone, Mac, iPod, Apple Watch, iPad and official accessories all price adjustment.
Taking the iPhone as an example, the starting price of the iPhone 8/8 Plus has been revised from 5888 yuan and 6688 yuan to 5837 yuan and 6630 yuan, the price of iPhone X 64GB has been adjusted from 8388 yuan to 8316 yuan, and the price of 256GB has been adjusted from 9688 yuan to 9605 yuan. yuan.
Four iPad products for sale, 12.9-inch iPad Pro starting price 6333 yuan, 10.5-inch iPad Pro starting price 5143 yuan, Apple iPad's new iPad 2565 yuan, iPad mini 4 starting price 3259 yuan.
Because it's just a few tens of yuan adjustments, netizens have lamented that 'Buying an iPhone X, I'm worse than 72? I'm just getting 8,000...'
It is worth mentioning that outside Apple, Samsung and other brands have not yet loosened the price of the corresponding product.