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Darren New wrote:
>> Own a TV (or, for that matter, any device capable of decoding TV
>> signal)? Tax.
>
> Not quite that here, no. But you pay to receive the signal at all in
> most places, by paying the cable company. We never got a TV tax, but
> then we never got government television stations either.
PBS stations don't count as government stations?
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Mueen Nawaz wrote:
> PBS stations don't count as government stations?
I was thinking about that. As far as I can tell, no. NPR isn't (much)
funded by the government (any more), and it's really composed of a bunch
of local radio stations all joining in. NPR is more like a supplier of
content than a radio station owner, more like "Visa" than a bank, for
example.
I don't know how much funding they get these days from the government,
but I don't think it's enough that I'd call it a "government station".
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before putting them in the washing machine.
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> And do you even know how much gasoline/diesel costs here? An American
> would drop his jaw into the ground if he saw it. Translated to the US
> units, gasoline is about 9.5 dollars/gallon, and diesel is 8.3.
We're up to $9/gallon for diesel and $9.50/gallon for petrol here in Germany
now.
> Oh, and cars cost almost double what they cost, for example, in Germany
> because of all the taxes. (In Germany, IIRC, a tax of 16% is put on the
> price of sold cars, while in Finland it's something like 96%.)
It went up to 19% here last year, but still small compared to the 96%! That
is a bit ridiculous.
> Not only that, you have to pay mandatory annual car insurance (good
> thing, I suppose)
I wouldn't like to live somewhere without mandatory car insurance, is there
any civilised country that does not demand that?
> as well as a mandatory annual car tax (you receive
> nothing in return, it's a *pure* tax for simply *owning* a car, without
> any benefits).
In the UK you need to pay the annual "road tax", if you want to drive or
park your vehicle on the public roads.
> On the plus side, you'll usually get a fast broadband internet connection
> for a quite moderate price here.
Plus, I assume you also get a lot more holiday per year than is usual in
USA. Most countries in Europe seem to have 4-6 weeks holiday per year as
standard.
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scott <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote:
> > Oh, and cars cost almost double what they cost, for example, in Germany
> > because of all the taxes. (In Germany, IIRC, a tax of 16% is put on the
> > price of sold cars, while in Finland it's something like 96%.)
> It went up to 19% here last year, but still small compared to the 96%! That
> is a bit ridiculous.
Still not as ridiculous as in Denmark, where it is, AFAIK, 210%...
> > as well as a mandatory annual car tax (you receive
> > nothing in return, it's a *pure* tax for simply *owning* a car, without
> > any benefits).
> In the UK you need to pay the annual "road tax", if you want to drive or
> park your vehicle on the public roads.
OTOH I assume that means that if you own 2 cars you don't have to pay
twice?
> > On the plus side, you'll usually get a fast broadband internet connection
> > for a quite moderate price here.
> Plus, I assume you also get a lot more holiday per year than is usual in
> USA. Most countries in Europe seem to have 4-6 weeks holiday per year as
> standard.
Yeah, that's quite cool. And moreover, by law you get an increased salary
during your holiday here.
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- Warp
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> Still not as ridiculous as in Denmark, where it is, AFAIK, 210%...
Hmmm, looking back to when I used to visit Denmark a lot, maybe that
explains why there were so many old cars on the roads? So really, a car
>> In the UK you need to pay the annual "road tax", if you want to drive or
>> park your vehicle on the public roads.
>
> OTOH I assume that means that if you own 2 cars you don't have to pay
> twice?
depending on how polluting the vehicle is.
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scott <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote:
> > Still not as ridiculous as in Denmark, where it is, AFAIK, 210%...
> Hmmm, looking back to when I used to visit Denmark a lot, maybe that
> explains why there were so many old cars on the roads? So really, a car
And it's not like you could just go to Germany, buy a car and bring it
to Finland. You'll have to pay the 96% of tax when you bring the car, so
no such luck...
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- Warp
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> And it's not like you could just go to Germany, buy a car and bring it
> to Finland. You'll have to pay the 96% of tax when you bring the car, so
> no such luck...
Yeh I guessed as much.
I assume you're allowed foreign registered cars there for a certain amount
of time, it's 6 months here I think. You could just replace your car in
Germany every 6 months, although I'm sure they thought of that already and
made it illegal.
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On 6 Jul 2008 14:09:20 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>The answer I was always told was "because there are no bones in ice
>cream".
It is a question (?) that I rediscover every time I hear it. It makes no sense
:)
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Regards
Stephen
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scott wrote:
>> Still not as ridiculous as in Denmark, where it is, AFAIK, 210%...
>
> Hmmm, looking back to when I used to visit Denmark a lot, maybe that
> explains why there were so many old cars on the roads? So really, a car
>
The car manufacturers sell cars cheaper to countries with higher taxes
to compensate the difference. It doesn't remove the difference, though,
just makes it a bit smaller.
But a good example: Audi A4 2.0TDI FWD with Business pack and no other
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scott wrote:
>> And it's not like you could just go to Germany, buy a car and bring it
>> to Finland. You'll have to pay the 96% of tax when you bring the car, so
>> no such luck...
If the car is used (IIRC 6+months old), you'll get discount from the tax
and it's not *that* much anymore (it still is much, just not *that* much).
> Yeh I guessed as much.
>
> I assume you're allowed foreign registered cars there for a certain
> amount of time, it's 6 months here I think. You could just replace your
> car in Germany every 6 months, although I'm sure they thought of that
> already and made it illegal.
>
Nnnope, a Finnish person ain't allowed to drive foreign-registered car
in Finland. It wasn't so long ago when the news had a great story about
some Estonian guy with a Finnish wife/gf - she moved his Porsche for 10m
oslt and Finland started to demand them to pay cartax (that 96%) of that
Porsche.
--
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
http://www.zbxt.net
aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid
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