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They should tax phones, IMO. Too many people just tossing them in the bin and buying new ones. Bit unfair to blanket everything but hey, that's the EU.
They should tax phones, IMO. Too many people just tossing them in the bin and buying new ones. Bit unfair to blanket everything but hey, that's the EU.
Won't be a concern of yours soonwell... 12months time at least.
Long story short, more tax will get paid to where it should get paid.
Err no...long story short, companies will move out of EU altogether to somewhere they pay less tax...
The EUSSR will learn the hard way
No, thank god. Sick of being barked at by Germany.
Mark - the big question now is, are they going to pass it onto consumers?
Not that I care. TBH this whole minergate/RAMgate/SSDgate thing has done me a favour really. I've spent a lot less on tech crap since it happened and won't spend any more unless it is critical until it all normalises, if it ever does.
As someone from Germany with many friends in Germany I can say even native Germans are sick of being barked at by Germany.
You think companies will just leave a market like EU untapped?Err no...long story short, companies will move out of EU altogether to somewhere they pay less tax...
The EUSSR will learn the hard way
I wouldn't even mind if they were good leadership material but jees, WW2 and all that.
Just sick of them telling us to prop up other countries in the EU, and constantly telling us what to do all of the time.
Talking of the EU and Brexit.. The other night when my heating went out they (the emergency gas people) sent me downstairs to check my meter. I noticed that the flat below me was completely empty. Not sure when the Polish people down there moved out (there were at least two families living in it (2 bed) but yeah, gone. Maybe they have finally sussed out the UK is not the paradise they thought it was going to be?
I won't draw it out but Germany can't even lead itself, The leaders in their ivory towers are too busy virtue signalling to actually care about their native citizens.
Their attitude is very much like an ex smoker.. You go completely in the other direction. They did some pretty crappy (biggest understatement ever) things to people during WW2 so now they want to basically give everything away. Not a very good idea, tbh.
It has good sentiment, but they generally need to accept that some nations are just poorer than others due to geographical location or just crappy leadership. Throwing money at them does not help, because they then take the pee.
They're just far too bossy, much like German people IRL.
Will this tax impact consumers?
More than likely. Corporations don't care as long as the shareholders are happy
Possibly. Thing is, we all know what is going to happen, right? they will just up their prices. Greed knows no boundaries. Absolutely no chance of them taking it out of their pockets, so it will come from us as usual![]()