discussion Petrol and tax

[Guest]

My family has always sat down for breakfast and for dinner. A strict rule.

We also on holiday in a caravan and boat always sat down for meals together. I say strict rule but only in the sense that we did it with out thinking. Sitting down the 6 of us was to me the most pleasurable thing that I could think of. Listening to the chatter of your 4 children was the high light of the day.

When we go to our children's families now for dinner we do the same the only difference is that the table is larger the numbers grow and the chat of a higher volume. You can not beat that.

Also add that 90% of the time Pauline and I sit down for dinner at a table.

Laurie

 

[colin m]

The UK isn't perfect .But I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

I had a job that took me around the world, and while some places might tempt me, yes, I think I agree Dave.

 

[yak face]

Cigarettes and Alcohol

champagne , supernova

 

[dave]

As a British expat living and working in Belgium, the quote below makes me want to cry. It's a good job the Beer is so good here.

"At the top end of the distribution we have Belgium where single people pay 43% of earnings in income tax and social security contributions (or national insurance), followed by Germany with 39.9%," says Maurice Nettley, head of tax statistics at the OECD."

 

[spanner570]

Just speaking in rough figures, does anyone know of another product were the tax is so much greater than the cost of the product ?I can't think of anything.

Colin M...

My wife!!!!

 

[dave]

I hope she's not reading this Ron.

 

[rickoshea52]

Er...why live there then?

Erm? Wall to wall beautiful blue eyed blond women would be a good enough reason for me.

 

[rickoshea52]

Well the health service is free....but not dental, that you have to pay for. A crown can set you back £500'ish...

The roads are.... not bad., but we also pay a yearly "tax" for the honour of driving on them,,,

The education system here is like the UK under funded, over stretched and failing. lol

Cigarettes are cheaper here though, only £4 a pack! (oh there goes another 20p LOL)

a case of 30 bottles of pop cost more than beer due to taxes on sugar..Even if the soda's are 'sugar free'.

Here is a good one. NUTS. there is a special tax on nuts. between 40 - 60% of the price is tax. its an old tax from the war (I think) when nuts where a luxury item, like chocolate..

And in second place we have.........Denmark.

However Denmark is not the oil nation Norway is and does not have the "savings" that they do. last I heard there is over one million krone per person in Norway being saved for a rainy day...

But as you point out, I am here 'cause I like it here.

Ian M

Having used the roads in DK, granted only between CPH and the airport, I thought they were better than the UK. What's also better is the railway system and not too expensive from memory.

But what freaks you out as an outsider is the price of beer and eating out. The only time I ever got nickel & dimed on my expenses was for a trip to CPH and a meal for four cost nearly £300. Nice meal though, I had crocodile steak.

 

[Alan 45]

I don't moan about taxes or the cost of fuel I moan about the price of beer !

Oil is taken from a country via a ship and is either refined on that ship or goes to a refinery here then it is driven all around the country to various filling stations for us to use and all for just over a £

Beer is made in a distillery with all the ingredients in abundance but costs upto 3 times as much

It don't figure ?

 

[Ian M]

£300!! Where did you eat? D'anglitare!

Having said that proper restaurant's are a bit pricey. 'Ordinary ones are a bit better though, as they are in the UK . Generally the roads are good but those that are bad are Bad.

I would like to say well done for leaving political statements out of this! As we all know this is not the place.

 

[rickoshea52]

£300!! Where did you eat? D'anglitare!Having said that proper restaurant's are a bit pricey. 'Ordinary ones are a bit better though, as they are in the UK . Generally the roads are good but those that are bad are Bad.

I would like to say well done for leaving political statements out of this! As we all know this is not the place.

Reef'n'Beef - an Australian restaurant between Vesterport station and the town hall square. Try their take on Death By Chocolate.

 

[colin m]

Well what a lively chat that turned out to be. It's a good job I'm not an antagonist by nature. Imagine the trouble I might have caused then.

So, we all pay lots of tax on everything we do and and purchase. But we do it with a smile, know all that tax is going to be used sensibly by our respective governments.

Oh dear, there I go again. Coat and hat, I'm off...........

 

[Alan 45]

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