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Annie Taylor Chen

Wow, that's cool! Bet gamers will drool over that... envying people in the US, I will be broke to get it into Sweden for tax, duty and various other fees lol.

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JoelBonetR 🥇

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What is the % taxes on sweden? Are this taxes for imported goods or it's a regular tax?

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Annie Taylor Chen

Not sure how they calculate for individual things, but generally we have 25% VAT for everything (both imported and regular), there is a fixed "processing fee" 125kr/14.38 USD per mail/parcel/shipping even your parcel costs 5 USD only. So for a parcel that costs 564kr/65.00 USD we paid 200kr/23 USD extra for what a person would pay if shipped within States. That's WITHOUT the shipping cost which depends on the weight can be extremely pricey.

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JoelBonetR 🥇 • Edited

Damn, are the salaries good enough for that? Here on spain we have 21%VAT and no extra costs for inter-european buys as customers (companies have less luck sadly) those things are what make Europe less attractive for making a company and making it bigger, all they do is to put rocks on the way

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Annie Taylor Chen

Well salaries can't be compared with US ones of course...but you can't compare like that, because generally Europeans enjoy better health care, education, paid vacation and parental leave compared to Americans. People with different age, lifestyle and opportunity to choose should choose something that suits them the best. :)

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JoelBonetR 🥇 • Edited

agree, but this social services budget comes from taxes directly to your salary and not from VAT and merchant taxes (which are meant to be for paying politician salaries, maintaining infrastructures and so) , it's important to know how the things are related. I can accept a reduction on my yearly salary for this services (which amount surpass greatly the real cost and it's disappointing TBH) but having to pay an over 20 percentile on each transaction plus other taxes associated with merchant activities and services apart from that are a shame. On Spain if you sum all taxes you can realize the 60% of your earnings go directly or indirectly to the government.

EEUU, South Korea, Japan.. are on a strict capitalism model while Europe is on a socialism one. First gives opportunities to companies and individuals but transmitting the self health care and pension plans to this individuals and companies while second gives healthcare and some other retributions under given situations out of the box to the detriment of opportunities due to high costs and low growth while maintaining same risk (or more if you add the cost of fire someone even when this person is not doing its job on purpose).
I think the only way to do it well is getting the first model while limiting the price range on social services (it's my opinion).

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Annie Taylor Chen • Edited

Yeah... tax and redistribution is another big topic, which might not be suitable to this post any more. Personally I don't mind higher tax if I have more control and say on how it's used! Anyways, if you like the topic I can recommend a new book called Trade Wars are Class Wars. :) Let's keep the topic on computer so we don't annoy others haha!

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JoelBonetR 🥇

hahaha Agree, hope you find a good product for you :D

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Annie Taylor Chen

I will put a update once I get mine, but we're looking at the ones you suggested right now. :)