Forbe's most taxed nations, the misery list
 

Guess who's #1 :/\\!!

http://www.forbes.com/2007/05/03/for...y_slide_2.html


The list shows how much tax would one pay with a €50 000 annual pay, €100 000 and a million

Well you must be earning it if your paying it :yep:

And six years old too.

The taxes kept increasing, so I'm afraid you just gave me nightmares :o

Op success.

Erm, if you'd care to look at this list, and then look at the 'Happiest Nations' thread started by der Onkel you'll see that they are mostly the same.

Therefore Slovenia should be a really happy place, not miserable. So pay your taxes and cheer up. :up:

Beat me to it.

It's not taxes that bother me.

It's how the goverment spends the income :/\\!!

The entire system bothers me.

As long as your working class you'll always suffer the effects of taxation.

Or suffer an actual penalty for avoiding them, instead of being able to cut a sweetheart deal like some tax dodgers are able.

Too much of that also. And half of them are known to the public but they're friends of politicians or even politicians themselves.
I feel like I'm paying my taxes so those thieves get a comfortable living plus the taxes they're supposed to pay :nope:

Roads are like golf courses, railroad hasn't been upgraded since the Germans forced us into a renovation, hospitals get funded by public fundraisers...
My money is not put to good use.

You hit the nail on the head: mismanagement.

Don't even get me started on the insurance system. I just finished my Master's in Belgium and returned back home. I'd rather go on a 10 year Odyssey than do the whole administrative procedure over again. No wonder studies here take on average more than 7 years, everyone is playing the system to stretch their student status, so they can get free insurance via their parents and work without paying taxes. Those of us who finish on time and invest in our education, "Well though luck, pay up you unemployed bastard. It's your own damned fault!" :/\\!!

Right now all I see is red and no, I'm not talking about the social-democrats/ex-communists in power.

in Poland, if you are unemployed, the Department of Labor pays 12 Euros for your health insurance.
If you sign a contract of employment - doesn't matter what type of contract, can even be a contract which doesn't give you any monthly income (like mine atm), you are no longer eligible for the free insurance (this is perfectly fine with me up to this point) BUT the Voluntary Health Insurance is 80 Euros.
How come the same insurance can be worth either 12 or 80 Euros?
Why should I pay a fixed amount without any real monthly income while somebody on a slightly different contract can pay a sum which is proportional to his income? (the problem lies in a different type of a contract signed).

People telling me to stop 'dodging taxation' have the right to be b1tch slapped.