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god i hate portuguese customs

i send every bit of information required, the cost of items, the shipping, and the pencilneck jerk tax collector can't even read through the extensive documentation they actually requested to see that this information was in there, so i sent it again, sent screenshots, and even followed up with the fucking card issuer payment receipt and order number

i feel so violated, this is the worst thing about living in portugal... fine if you order stuff through amazon or some UK vendor that has all that EU shit sorted out via their shipping contractor, but everywhere else is hell

it's like being in bulgaria 10 years ago, and you wind up paying nearly 30% of the total cost of the order including shipping as tax

it's like, bro, that's how much the australian government was cutting out of your wages back in 2011, for an annual income of up to 30,000 a year

european union sucks ass so bad i could scream, i'm seriously not gonna stay in the EU after this december, i'm leaving
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Owner_of_donky 1y ago

Whoever invented vat + import tax is close to the devil to me.

During christmas I ordered a thing for $500 from China to Bulgaria. When it came I had to pay vat 20% and then 14% more on the already applied 20%. This is disgusting.

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

yeah i'm getting 23% on both shipping and the price of the goods

coercing people to collect taxes is the whole strategy of the system of extortion now...

here's my take on it:

i'm already paying about 20% VAT on everything i spend money on

those prices are inflated further by the income tax they collect to pay for the workers, which is the majority of the labor cost, so probably a further 20% out of the remainder after 20% is going to pay the income tax, and then i'm also paying the land taxes and the taxation accountant fees, which probably chucks on another 15%

when it comes down to it, the easiest way to cut prices is to stop paying taxes, at this point, it's more than half of the price of everything

so if i'm already paying for effectively more than half of what i spend in taxes, and then i'm supposed to be ok about them taking another 30% of what i am paid, as well?

at which point does taxation become slavery? is 50% slavery ok?