Originally posted by Fishy
Holland has all of those things, we only have a 19% tax rate on everything not essential to stay alive... 3% for food, 6% for educational things.The other taxes I don't know for sure, I know that a liter of petrol here costs about € 1.29 per liter... Making it roughly € 5,16 per gallon.
Which equals about 3 and a half pound..
well what do you know, we don't have the highest gas prices in the world after all 🙂
Anyways as for the rest, that is pretty standard stuff.. Most country's have that, and income tax is the single biggest tax factor you could ever have, so let's be honest here. Sweden just takes the cake.
i've barely began to scratch the surface...
capital gains tax
inheritance tax
highest duty's on cigarettes and alcohol
here's a nice little breakdown of the so called "stealth" taxes brought in by Brown in the last 10 years