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Re: what are you drinking right now?
« Reply #8820 on: April 19, 2010, 03:02:46 PM »
Get a new wifey - an Eskimo.  :zoinks:

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Re: what are you drinking right now?
« Reply #8821 on: April 19, 2010, 03:04:48 PM »
We have a 25% VAT on food(!) Other European countries usually have 5-6%.  :thumbdn:

WTF  We don't pay sales taxes on food in my state

The general VAT is 25%. We have VAT on everything I think. Though it's "just" 6% for books, theatre tickets etc.

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Re: what are you drinking right now?
« Reply #8822 on: April 19, 2010, 03:06:28 PM »
It's good. And it's for free. Would cost about USD$100 to buy here in Sweden.  :2thumbsup:
how does one get some for free

You have a brother with cash travelling to foreign countries with cheaper booze.  8)

Just looked here it's $42.87 for the same bottle. :o  They really screw you on taxes there for everything

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Re: what are you drinking right now?
« Reply #8823 on: April 19, 2010, 03:07:38 PM »
We have a 25% VAT on food(!) Other European countries usually have 5-6%.  :thumbdn:

WTF  We don't pay sales taxes on food in my state

The general VAT is 25%. We have VAT on everything I think. Though it's "just" 6% for books, theatre tickets etc.

Ours is a sales tax pretty much the same thing.  It's 6% on taxables but many things are exempt like food
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Re: what are you drinking right now?
« Reply #8824 on: April 19, 2010, 03:08:51 PM »
It's good. And it's for free. Would cost about USD$100 to buy here in Sweden.  :2thumbsup:
how does one get some for free

You have a brother with cash travelling to foreign countries with cheaper booze.  8)

Just looked here it's $42.87 for the same bottle. :o  They really screw you on taxes there for everything

They sure do. We have the second highest taxes on the planet.

Swedish booze is also cheaper in the US than in Sweden thanks to Swedish taxation.  :grrr:
And to think where I live has some of the highest taxes in the US
Are you in Massachusetts?

Move to Delaware. :-)
Connecticut just as bad :thumbdn:  I want to move North

Is New Hampshire still tax free?
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Re: what are you drinking right now?
« Reply #8825 on: April 19, 2010, 03:13:13 PM »
Drinking chai. :tea:
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Re: what are you drinking right now?
« Reply #8826 on: April 19, 2010, 03:18:38 PM »
It's good. And it's for free. Would cost about USD$100 to buy here in Sweden.  :2thumbsup:
how does one get some for free


You have a brother with cash travelling to foreign countries with cheaper booze.  8)

Just looked here it's $42.87 for the same bottle. :o  They really screw you on taxes there for everything

They sure do. We have the second highest taxes on the planet.

Swedish booze is also cheaper in the US than in Sweden thanks to Swedish taxation.  :grrr:
And to think where I live has some of the highest taxes in the US
Are you in Massachusetts?

Move to Delaware. :-)
Connecticut just as bad :thumbdn:  I want to move North

Is New Hampshire still tax free?
I think we looked there and Maine

I am drinking a Coke
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Re: what are you drinking right now?
« Reply #8827 on: April 19, 2010, 03:53:28 PM »
That bottle of Lit can be found here for 32.95 in Euros.

Taxes on that bottle make a bit more than 5 euro in the price.

VAT on food and such is 6% in general.
on luxury things 19%

On alcohol there is a fixes price per bottle, or glass, depending on the amount of alcohol in it.



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Re: what are you drinking right now?
« Reply #8828 on: April 19, 2010, 04:03:56 PM »
It would be €17 in tax here, since we pay 501.41 kronor for every liter of pure alcohol. Fucking soviet state.  :thumbdn:

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Re: what are you drinking right now?
« Reply #8829 on: April 19, 2010, 06:07:11 PM »
It would be €17 in tax here, since we pay 501.41 kronor for every liter of pure alcohol. Fucking soviet state.  :thumbdn:

Canada is like that too.  I remember going in a liquor store in Nova Scotia and having a WTF moment
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Re: what are you drinking right now?
« Reply #8830 on: April 19, 2010, 07:29:18 PM »
Lime slush.

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Re: what are you drinking right now?
« Reply #8831 on: April 19, 2010, 07:48:36 PM »
Sunny Delight...original tangy Florida style! :2thumbsup:
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Re: what are you drinking right now?
« Reply #8832 on: April 19, 2010, 07:52:15 PM »
Lots of milk we got two gallons or 99 cents each but the expire the day after tomorrow 
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Re: what are you drinking right now?
« Reply #8833 on: April 19, 2010, 07:55:56 PM »
Lots of milk we got two gallons or 99 cents each but the expire the day after tomorrow 

Maybe you could make some French toast batter with some of it! :drool:
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Re: what are you drinking right now?
« Reply #8834 on: April 20, 2010, 01:11:19 AM »
:coffee:
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