Yay for EU! Go EU!

[Wanuvas]

"Effective immediately, customers who reside within the European Union will be charged VAT equal to 17.5% of their subscription fees.
To comply with changes in the law in the European Union, EverQuest subscribers who are residents of EU countries will be charged VAT equal to 17.5% of the subscription fees.

These changes require that digital services be taxed at the point of consumption , i.e. in your country of residence. The countries currently covered by this policy are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and United Kingdom."

Isn't great to be a member of EU? :rolleyes:

And it's not only EQ, it's for all Internet-related trade it seems.

This pisses me off.

[Bulge]

Me too, got very annoyed. If an European country sees a way to tax something, be assured they will do it. They just LOVE taxes in the old world. :(

Why don't they legalize Marihuana and then tax it to high heavens? < -------- just to piss off others so I am not the only one pissed off here. :)

Bleh.


:beer:

[Helgur]

that sux so incredible much :chainsaw :grr: :mad:

FU EU!

[Nekratal]

If only they could legalize it!!!

Tax it how much they want, I couldn't care less since I'll be growing my own :blunt:

Anyway, this whole VAT thing SUX, anything ordered on the net that is digital has this shitty tax added to it :(

[Mord]

Oh shut up and enjoy your health care. Or start a revolution over taxes... and have no health care... and telemarketers calling your house all the time trying to make money to buy their own health care.

I'm now inspired to draw a stick figure cartoon battle of "Health Care man vs. Telemarketer man."

Thank you.

[Nekratal]

Originally posted by Mordabent
I'm now inspired to draw a stick figure cartoon battle of "Health Care man vs. Telemarketer man."

Thank you.

lol

Your right Mord, we should stop wining.... I mean ALL of our develop countries are nice and we don't appreciate it enough. We should all go spend some months in central africa, this will change the way we appreciate things... :sifle:

[Wanuvas]

I am paying 33% of my salary each month in taxes... And that's just because I don't have a good enough job, had I had that it might even have been 50%. (Right now I don't have a job though heh.)

The thing that irks me about this here thing with taxes is that the politicians don't do much good with the cash they get from taxes.

Why the heck does our head-minister need 110.000kr a month in salary?! All the politicians have these kind of salaries... It's sickening... (A normal salary is about 12 - 16k a month here.)

Now, I don't know if $11.000 a month is too much for you americans but to me, it's about $10.000 too much when you see what good, or no good rather, the fat bastard does... :(

[Bulge]

But whining about taxes is our number 1 national past-time, you can't take that away from us, Mord!

And yes, Holland is a pretty damn good country to live in, though it is a bit over-developed, as in there isn't a single acre of land where you do not see the hand of men.


When I was in Nova Scotia a long time ago, and in Maine too, I was in awe about the fact that you could travel for miles and miles and did not see a single men-made thing, exept for the road off course. No houses, barns acres or even telephone-poles, just wood, wood and more wood. Our family(Dutch that emigrated to Canada in the 50's) there had a cottage at a lake in Nova Scotia, and your closest neighbour was at the other end of the lake. :)

My wife and I still have plans to make a copy of the huge porch of that cottage overlooking the lake, just to get some feel of solitude in our crowded little country. :D

So whining about the fact that Holland is overcrowded is another past-time. ;)

:beer:

[Mord]

Minnesota is kind of funny.

A very large chunk of middle-class+ families have a home in the metropolis of Minneapolis/St. Paul and surrounding suburbs, and also have a 'Lake place' they rush to on the weekends and holidays. (There's close to 15,000 lakes in Minnesota, most north of the twin cities. South and west is mainly flat farmland) So all the major roads going north are packed on a Friday evening with everyone going to 'Get away from it all' to return in a migration flock Sunday night to go to work and school on Monday.

I'll bet that sounds completely silly and alien to Europeans. :D

[Godric]

I'll bet that sounds completely silly and alien to Europeans.

not at all, but it isn't that common here. But on weekends with a public holiday before or behind all the traffic on the big motorways is as slow as caoutchouc.
In Europe everything is a bit smaller then in america...
I need a good hour to france, nearly two hours to the netherlands, 4 hours to the next ocean and maybe 9 hours to the Alpen, the big european mountains. Only 2 hours so to the next mountains where i live, not as impressive as the Alps.

[Godric]

I should add that there is no speed limit on the german motorways, so you can drive 200 km/h without getting a ticket, as long as there isn't to much traffic. :D
You could even drive faster, but i never had a car that was faster then 200 km/h...