Subject:
|
Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.debate
|
Date:
|
Mon, 15 Mar 1999 12:53:56 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
528 times
|
| |
|
|
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:32:42 GMT, "Selçuk <teyyareci>"
<sgore@nospam.superonline.com> wrote:
>
> Jasper Janssen wrote in message <36eb9d57.11798658@lugnet.com>...
> from 6% (for vital sources like bread, basic food materials) up to 25%
> (luxury(!) items, icluding things like home appliances, and so).
Okay, you're right. i was too simplistic. 6% on books & food, 17.5 on
the rest.
> Packet of 20 goes for 350 000TL, slightly less than 1 US$ (any brand- camel,
> marlboro, etc. Local brands costs half or less) You know, some people around
Round here, we don't have locla brands, and the price is set by the
government to be the same on all packets, everywhere.
> > A litre of unleaded 98 octan goes for around 2.20 guilders here, or
> > somewhat majorly over a USD.
>
> How can it be? Even here (we buy 90% of petroil that used in country from
> abroad) it costs less than a USD (slightly, though).
Well, we buy _all_ oil from abroad. I believe we do have one or two
refineries, not to mention Shell, here, though. The answer is: taxes.
I believe of the 2.20 guilders, at least 1.50 is taxes, IIRC.
Jasper
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
90 Messages in This Thread:
  
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
