Abdouramane Bila stopped for lunch at the Cedar Rapids Wing Stop on Edgewood Road Tuesday. When he took a look at his receipt he saw something strange.

“I started looking at the taxes that were charged, and it did not quite add up to me,” Bila said. “I pulled my phone out and looked at the Iowa Department of Revenue’s website, and supposedly Cedar Rapids is supposed to be charging 7% for the whole territory.”

Bila’s receipt was charged 7.5%.

“I looked at my receipt, and thought it was just mine. I asked a couple coworkers that went with me, and looked at their receipts too. I did the math, it came up the same,” Bila said.

He asked a cashier who said her manager was out until the next week. So, Bila reached out to TV-9.

We placed an order online Wednesday morning and noticed the same. Our order came up to $9.49. The tax was set at 71 cents. When you do the math, a 7% tax is about 66 cents. 71 cents is a 7.5% tax. We then reached out to the store’s owner.

“I called the cooperate office to try and verify correct tax percentages, and we verified the percentage was off by .5, Owner Brent Joens said. “So, the corporate office shut our online ordering off immediately. They have put in the change to take it back to the 7.0%. Somehow through the point of sale system being updated, percentages got moved around.”

Joens said for the rest of Wednesday, all guests who order in store would be give a 5 cent refund on the $10 order. Online ordering should be up and running by store open on Thursday.

“We’re going to verify exactly what happened, look at what the cost was for the guests, and then what we’d like to do is make a donation back to a local charity,” Joens said. “The guests of Cedar Rapids have been so great to us, and so supportive to us, so we’d really like to give back to the community in some way that is positive.”

Wing Stop should have full knowledge of the incident by the end of the week. Jones hopes to make the donation by the end of next week.

“I’m just glad that the guest let us know so quickly, and we were able to get it rectified right away, so it didn’t linger on and have a bigger affect,” Joens said.