You thought that was weird? Behold: the strangest of taxes! 😮 😲 😱

[woofy31]

Too much ranting these days… It’s time for some “😮” & “😲” & “😱” moments!

Where I live, we have some weird taxes, like weird-weird! And I bet you have yours, too, so why not let us know what weird taxes you’re facing? 😀 (not required to go into so many details like I did)

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Behold our weirdest taxes:

• the animal shadow tax - $28 if you have a field where your animals go graze and make shadows on that field (I mean, since when do we have to pay for what animals do with mother nature?)

• the second access door tax - $60 if you want a second access door to your home, or $30 if it’s a garden access door

• the tree planting tax - if you want to get married or register your car, you need to give visual proof that you’ve planted a tree in a place established by the local authority before you’re allowed to do any of that

• the horse tax - $1.2/year for each horse you own, because you just had to get a horse 😛

• the shop schedule tax - $50/year for establishing a working schedule on your new built shop (like we would ever create a shop to keep it closed!), and if you dare to extend your working schedule, you need to pay an extra $25

• the rain water tax - about $7/month because rain water goes through the inner pipe infrastructure and implicitly adds costs to the system

• the silence tax - up to $500/year for loud spaces, introduced as a means to pay the clubs’ bouncers

• the ditch tax - 50 cents/meter/day (totally unrelated to the singer, I promise!) required when construction workers dig ditches

• the marriage tax $20 if you get married before 7 PM, and up to $50 afterwards

• the cart tax - $9/year if you do regular transportation of things with a shopping-like cart from one side to another of the city

• the stairs tax - $24 if you want to make an office or some headquarters for your business at the ground floor of a building and you need access stairs to it

• the fireworks tax - $50/year for a minute of fireworks

• the slow vehicle tax - $50 if you’re a construction business owning slow construction vehicles

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^{DISCLAIMER: not all of the above taxes are applied in every city, but many are}

[eoinfinnegan]

Well Ireland cant compete with those but we do some strange things with tax.
Water charges were introduced a couple of years ago but were subject to huge protests (yeah, we didn’t protest about bailing out banks, huge cuts due to IMF intervention or anything else but try charging us for water which falls from the sky every day and we get very militant).
Approx half of the country didnt pay it and now it has been announced that it will be abolished and those who paid will be refunded.
On top of that, approx 30% of the country got a “Water Tax grant” when the tax was introduced but apparently it is not legal for the grant to be taken off the refund meaning this tax will have actually left hundreds of thousands of people with a profit of €100 - roughly a 30% return on what they paid so better than most investments.
Only in Ireland…

[woofy31]

Well Ireland cant compete with those but we do some strange things with tax.

Water charges were introduced a couple of years ago but were subject to huge protests (yeah, we didn’t protest about bailing out banks, huge cuts due to IMF intervention or anything else but try charging us for water which falls from the sky every day and we get very militant).

Approx half of the country didnt pay it and now it has been announced that it will be abolished and those who paid will be refunded.

On top of that, approx 30% of the country got a “Water Tax grant” when the tax was introduced but apparently it is not legal for the grant to be taken off the refund meaning this tax will have actually left hundreds of thousands of people with a profit of €100 - roughly a 30% return on what they paid so better than most investments.

Only in Ireland…

but try charging us for water which falls from the sky every day and we get very militant

Well, we’re all chill out here, we’ve gotten used to such eerie things (I just remembered about that old “Eerie, Indiana” tv show, man that was awesome!), and we’re embracing these like we’ve been expecting them 😛

I guess that’s why the folks who lead the people have no remorse when introducing such taxes, because:

They know we won’t do a thing about it, we know they know, they know we know. wow 😕

[gig_freak]

Okay, in my country we have some strange taxes, but the strangest tax is the one that we have to pay for the service of our public television (3 Channels) with crap content, but the weirdest part is that our previous government allocated some percent of that tax to fund privately owned TV stations. I think that just in my country private TV stations are funded by the people. I don’t know some of you might see this positive, but I don’t see it that way.

[woofy31]

Okay, in my country we have some strange taxes, but the strangest tax is the one that we have to pay for the service of our public television (3 Channels) with crap content, but the weirdest part is that our previous government allocated some percent of that tax to fund privately owned TV stations. I think that just in my country private TV stations are funded by the people. I don’t know some of you might see this positive, but I don’t see it that way.

the strangest tax is the one that we have to pay for the service of our public television

Interesting, we have to pay that as well, along with the radio tax for still using old-style radios and listening to radio in shops and all, but I didn’t mention the TV tax since I thought that was a normal tax 😃

– they’re still trying to remove the radio tax, but nothing is happening

[gig_freak]

the strangest tax is the one that we have to pay for the service of our public television

Interesting, we have to pay that as well, along with the radio tax for still using old-style radios and listening to radio in shops and all, but I didn’t mention the TV tax since I thought that was a normal tax 😃

– they’re still trying to remove the radio tax, but nothing is happening

Yep, the TV & Radio Tax is under one bill here. It costs, 350 MKD ($8) a month which is the almost same price as cable. Personally, I think that it’s weird because our government (old government) was funding privately owned tv stations using that tax.

In my opinion, this tax would be ok if our national (publicly) owned broadcaster (MRT) would provide us with great content and no commercials.

Actually, it isn’t a strange tax, but it’s using the taxpayer’s money for nothing.

[writer99025]

We have introduced GST -Goods and Services Tax - here, one nation, one tax. The most comprehensive tax reform since independence in 1947. Only someone like PM Modi could have thought of this and executed something of this scale.

[Guest offlinehelpers]

We have introduced GST -Goods and Services Tax - here, one nation, one tax. The most comprehensive tax reform since independence in 1947. Only someone like PM Modi could have thought of this and executed something of this scale.

Sounds very similar to our VAT - value added tax of 20% on goods and services

Please note: other world leaders are available, 😉