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> was a very strange feeling to receive that completely untaxed, Well thats the absurdity of the German tax system. People which do not have much don't pay mu
by dathinab 4y ago
> was a very strange feeling to receive that completely untaxed,
Well thats the absurdity of the German tax system.
People which do not have much don't pay much taxes (lower %cut).
People who are more wealthy then that pay a lot of taxes (max %cut).
People who are even more wealthy again much less taxes (still max %cut, but docents of ways to circumvent taxes, and "safely" launder money e.g. by going through art collections, buildings etc.).
- xioxox 4y agoIt also has crazy things like taxation on energy produced by your solar panels that you use yourself.
- dathinab 4y agoIt has taxation on energy usage independent of source. Given that traditionally alternate sources where things like companies having their own small gas power plant or similar this isn't really crazy. (Some details you can skip: The law effectively was about preventing circumvention of taxes on wasting energy, preventing unhealthy fragmentation in the power grid, making stabilizing the power grid easier and helping/subventing electric companies which back then often where state owned, i.e. tax payer financed; The law somewhat made sense for this goals, in the past. But only in the past. Change in technology and the ecosystem make it IMHO sub-optimal today. Today we probably should push for interconnected micro-grids with some decentralized energy sources each.) Today the law is stuck in the past and should be changed IMHO. At least an exception for green decentralized energy and/or excluding (only) small producers should be done, maybe more. Thinking about it currently is the best political weather for it.
- svachalek 4y agoIt's the same in the US.