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Tax on the sun

In the early 2000s, “sun” taxes was introduced in the Balearic Islands. A tax on the sun overlaid all visitors. Travelers arriving at the popular resorts of Ibiza, Mallorca, Menorca and other Islands must pay €1 per stay here. Collected through the tax on the sun means of power directed to the improvement of tourism infrastructure. For example, cleaning of beaches and coastal areas … Read more

Tax on chopsticks

Every year in China for food is used about 45 billion disposable chopsticks. Disposable chopsticks used up 1.3 million cubic metres of timber each year, depleting the country’s forests, the ministry said. For this reason, the government decided to introduce a special 5% tax when buying disposable bamboo chopsticks. This is done to ensure that the population is more likely used reusable chopsticks, made … Read more

Tax pool

In Greece the pool in the yard of a private home is considered a luxury. Therefore every home owner with a pool is obliged to pay tax of about 800 euros per year. Even pools for General use in apartment buildings have to pay. Many people of Athens, who do not want to pay this tax, cover their swimming pools with a tarps in … Read more

Cooking on the grill tax

to fight a global warming. They believe that during cooking on the grill there are from 50 to 100 grams of greenhouse gases reach the atmosphere. So all residents of Wallonia region in Belgium, before making a BBQ must to pay a fee of EUR 20. To control of the tax process during the barbeque processes the government of Wallonia is using the helicopters … Read more

Tattoo Tax

Do you like tattoo or body piercing? Since 2005, if you live in Arkansas – you have to be ready to pay 6-percent sales tax. This state applies the same tax to electrolysis. So, if you live in Arkansas and want to be seen a little bit different with a new tattoo or body attachments – try to do it in another state, so … Read more

Cow Flatulence Tax

Scientists found that the methane released by cows flatulence may bring up to 18% of greenhouse gasses in the Europe. So cow flatulence can be a key producer of methane and a leading cause of global warming. The slaughterhouses collect a lot of cows at one place and accumulate a large quantities of methane gas in one area. It caused to demand taxes on … Read more

Blueberries tax

The production of wild blueberries in the Maine is a subject to a 3/4 of a cent per pound tax. This tax is applied to every pound of wild blueberries sold, on top of regular taxes. People who grow, purchase, sell, store or works with them have to pay this tax because dealing with wild blueberries is one of the most important agricultural industries … Read more

Google taxes

European countries like to go after a Internet-based companies which are making a big revenue off their citizens and at the same time they are paying taxes. These taxes called as “Google taxes”, but they related to a different large Internet-based company. France likes to attempt to tax such a companies more than any other European country. Previously France considered a “culture tax” on … Read more

Cereal toy tax

Canada has one of the top 10 world famous weird and fun taxes: in Canada, makers of children’s breakfast cereal are granted tax-exempt status if boxes with these cereals include free toys . This tax exemption is limited to toys that are not “beer, liquor, or wine.” It means that cereal packed with alcoholic “bonus toys”, get taxed normally in Canada.

Tax Free Ballooning

Kansas taxes sales of payments for “any place providing amusement, entertainment or recreation services.” So there is a tax on hot air ballooning. Hot air balloons in Kansas, that are tethered to the ground and stay there have to be taxed, because physically their passengers don’t go anywhere. The use of tethered balloons taxed as entertainment. Hot air balloons that are piloted “some distance … Read more