Yes, we are lucky, we're only the second most 'tax-milked' country after
Denmark, however, I don't bother too much about paying taxes anymore since I
got the Hospital bill for the 8 weeks of the twins being there... over 80%
of this is being covered by the state, there are lot's of protection and
social rights here paid by income tax and VAT. As long as you stay healthy,
or don't loose your job, one does not think about taxes as being ok, but in
either case of unemployment, illness or other bad luck we are in the best
countries there are!
iwert.
ps: OM content: airplane fares are rather low at the moment. we could send a
list member over the atlantic to get our 'OM-stuff' and devide the cost!
Roger wrote:
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> Think yourself lucky; Danish sales tax ("moms") is 25%, and top income tax
> rate is around 68% (which is paid by a lot of people). Cars are another
> story; after paying all the taxes etc. the price of a new car is often
> around 3000f the basic untaxed price.....
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> Roger Key
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> Jez wrote:
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> Hmm - it's not all bad - at least the horrendous 21ales tax allows
> income tax to be kept down to a nice low 56%.
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