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I'm obviously doing quite well then! I pay a flat $8 a month in taxes here due to the government's excellent Small Business Tax scheme (called the "Smile" tax); if I ever make more than $60,000 I'll start paying 7%, and if I go over $1 million I'll pay 25%.

The VAT (goods and services) tax is 12% AND I get a portion of it back each year depending on my receipts. Petrol and oil products are subsidised, which means that I pay only about 2 cents per gallon tax, and a gallon of petrol costs me $1.50. Liquors produced in other countries, however, are crushingly expensive, and about 65% of what I pay there is tax of one sort or another.

North American and European taxes are messed up!