Chile Forum

California South wrote:http://www.latinbusinesschronicle.com/app/article.aspx?id=4971

Yup, 19% VAT -- it's bloodly splendid.

patagoniax wrote:

California South wrote:http://www.latinbusinesschronicle.com/app/article.aspx?id=4971

Yup, 19% VAT -- it's bloodly splendid.

19% Vat vs 15% in NZ,

10% Income tax vs 20 - 40% depending on what you earn in NZ....

I take chile any day

BC 12% HST and 35% income tax, but we have roads and schools, eh.

nwdiver wrote:BC 12% HST and 35% income tax, but we have roads and schools, eh.

And a degree of civilisation, at least to the west of Alberta.

BTW, Px is headed back to BC tomorrow for a short while.

patagoniax wrote:And a degree of civilisation, at least to the west of Alberta.

We have "civilisation" here in Australia too.
GST of 10% and personal income tax up to 46.5% and corporate income tax of 30%.
But they manage it well (cough): On a recent budget night, the federal govt announced they would budget AUD350 to AUD400 (~CLP175.000-200.000) for each pensioner to get a television set-top box which costs ~AUD30 (~15.000) in the shops, while on another TV channel it was reported that they are cutting back on infectious super-bug monitoring and control, and reducing the number of patients being treated for treatment-resistant tuberculosis in the far north.

Please correct me if I am wrong, but at least in Chile they don't pretend to handle something they aren't handling at a policy level, do they? (I am excluding the low-level bureaucrat who does not get off his/her bum to do as they say they will.)