* Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten [Tue, 29/05/2001 at 09:24 +0200]
>
>
> "John D. Giorgis" schreef:
>
> > The Washington Post has a fascinating article comparing Britain (and to a
> > much lesser degree, Europe) to the United States in Tuesday's edition.
> >
> > Check it out here:
> > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A88672-2001May28.html
> >
> > Excerpt:
> > ***************
> > Income and social security tax rates are generally higher here than in the
> > United States, and on every retail purchase consumers pay a whopping
> > national sales tax of 17.5 percent.
>
> Just a minor nitpick.
> It's 19 percent (since januari this year) in the Netherlands. 21 percent in
> Belgium and in Germany. As for the rest of the countries I'm not sure but they
> are all around 20 percent. We also used to have a lower tax rate for some goods
normal rate is 20.6% here in France
5.5% for food, books and some other first necessity products.
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