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Look at your council tax breakdown, check the "Housing and Council Tax Benefits Awarded" amounts - ours are increasing by 15-20% at a time and make up about 40% of the bill.
It's paying for welfare via stealth.
If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers.
For some years now we've been having to pay a tax called Solidaritätszuschlag which is a surcharge on income tax (and a couple of others) which is now 5.5% of your income tax, was 7.5%. This tax is presumably being used to re-finance the new Germany states after re-unification. As far as I can see its built some nice motorways, subsidised inner town shopping and let a load of lazy ex-commies sit on their arse and beat up foreigners. The last time a 'temporary' tax was brought in here was the so called Champagne tax which kind of got merged into your normal tax, probably what will happen with this one. Also you have to watch out when registering here because if you tick the wrong box, you end up paying church tax as well
“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”
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