Yes, I've noticed that there are two taxes indicated on receipts around here... talk about complicated! At least it makes me feel better that even the locals find this system annoying.

In France they're still doing the whole "some essential stuff gets a 5.5% tax and the rest gets 19.5%" (I think those are the amounts but they might have increased), I have yet to understand how they figure out what's essential, it can be confusing at times but at least the tax is taken into account already in the price. In Finland they just increased the VAT to 23% on everything besides strong alcohol, for which it decreased... the Finnish government has the best logic ever.