v2ikesibul

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   by v2ikesibul 8y ago

   Personal income is taxed at 20% and collected by the central government no matter what. Half of that is then transferred to the municipality you're registered in. Personal income tax makes up approximately half of a municipality's
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   by v2ikesibul 8y ago

   There's no experiment and it has nothing to do with the EU. It's a local thing that didn't initially even have central goverment's backing. Public transport in Tallinn (1/3 of Estonia's population) was made fre
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   by v2ikesibul 8y ago

   It's a matter of political will, not foreign grants. Additional subsidies that enable free public transport are 25 million EUR per year [1]. State budget for 2018 is 10 308 million EUR [2]. [1] https://www.err.ee/640797
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   by v2ikesibul 8y ago

   There's a single company running the routes and it's owned by the city: http://www.tallinnlt.ee/en/about-the-company/about-tallinna-...