Hello;
Here´s a good one for comparisons!
Our friends the Garage Wine Importers told us the taxes and dues when
selling a wine in Sweden.
Here´s an example:
We adress a wine from France, priced i zorros and place the exchange rate
between the Swedish zloty[1] and a zorro as 9,2 sek/1EU.
Price at producer, hors tax EU 3 (for non-francophone, this is not a tax on
horses, but means "without tax")
Transport to Sweden 0 Eu 87
Give the importer SEK 20: 2EU18
To sell it in Sweden, it ahs to go through the Systembolaget.
Systembolaget due 23 %:1EU39
Systembolaget then adds flat rate SEK 3: 0EU33
Tax on alcohol, flat rate SEK 16, 56: 1EU80
Value added tax 25 % (highest in Europe): 2EU39
Price for consumer: 11EU95
So producers gets 3EU, transport gets 2EU67, importer 2EU17, monopoly 1EU72,
and the State 4EU19.
However, Systembolaget is owned by the state, so the 1.72 ends up in the
fiscus as well - 5EU90 in toto.

What´s the deal where y´all live?

CHeers

Nils Gustaf

[1] Calling a SEK a "Swedish zloty" is in fact derogatory and
condescending[2] - please accept my profound apologies to any present Poles
for comparing the sturdy zloty with the good-for-little Swedish krona.
[2] I first heard it in Denmark.
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