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(...) And all this doesn't take into account other taxes Americans pay yearly. * personal property tax * vehicle tax * sin tax (cigs, alcohol, and other "non-necessary things) * gasoline tax (30-40 cents per gallon?) * Medicaire (not a tax) * Social (...) (21 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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(...) I'd encourage this subthread to migrate away from the current groups and into off-topic.debate if it goes too much further into comparative analysis of countries... I XFUT there already. (21 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Builtin taxes: gasoline, other fuels, alcohol, cigarettes (at least). I think about 90% of gasoline price is various taxes. health security (in fact a tax) social security (in fact a tax) tax from immobilities (is it 'personal property tax'?) (...) (21 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yup, the UK's pretty bad too - VAT at 17.5% on most goods (included in the price though), the fuel tax is incredibly high (about 86%) plus you have to pay road tax just to have your vehicle on the road. Alcohol and Tobacco taxes are high as (...) (21 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, your list matches mine here in Germany, with two notable exceptions: We pay about EUR1.20 (US$1.44) per liter gasoline, of which EUR0.90 to 0.95 are taxes. With 4.55 liter being a gallon, and the Euro at about US$1.20 we pay roughly US$5 (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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FUT: lugnet.off-topic.debate "Christian Treczoks" <ct@braehler.com> wrote in message news:HyExHu.GGK@lugnet.com... (...) Actually there is a mistake. 1 gallon = 3.8 liters, not 4.55 liters. (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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An Imperial Gallon is 4.55L. (URL) Christian probably should have converted to US gal in this particular case. (...) -- Tom Stangl *(URL) Visual FAQ home *(URL) Visual FAQ Home (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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n_okla@hotmail.com (Neb Okla) wrote in <HyFsM8.vAx@lugnet.com>: (...) Actually, both are correct. 1 US gallon is 3.785 litres, 1 UK gallon is 4.545 litres. One more reason to go metric. (20 years ago, 1-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Now I know why 10 gallon hats are so small. ;) Scott A (Who thought {everything} was bigger in the USA) (20 years ago, 1-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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