Read about motor vehicle registration, inspection and taxes here. Pre-owned (Used) Cars (Gebrauchtwagen) Pre-owned cars can be a good value if you shop carefully. If you buy a used car through a dealer you can normally expect some sort of guarantee. (According to the German “lemon law...
Embassies and consulates in Germany are set up not only to further contacts with the Germans, but also to provide a number of useful services for their citizens if they happen to be traveling or living here. It is their duty, for example, to help their citizens abroad in times of ...
What should we do about our $18T in debt that is projected to grow to an astronomical historical high of $20T by the time Obama is finished? • Raise taxes on the “Rich”? (Um, we already did that; the top 5% now pay 53% of the total income tax. How much more can we...
W:The government has taken away taxes from our paychecks all year.I hope we get some of that money back or at least that we won't have to pay more. M:Remember the money your aunt left us when she died, and the money you made when you taught in a night school?
Johnny Jen has spent much of his time abroad in Thailand, purposefully living below his means. Handling Practicalities Talk to a tax adviser before going on permanent walkabout. If you don’t establish a permanent residence in another country, you likely won’t be su...
power was just under 1 percent, around 0.8 percent. But Jewish individuals held around 15 percent of senior management positions in 1932, so way larger than their population share. In Berlin, about 5 percent of the population were Jewish, but Jews paid over 30 percent of the taxes in the ...
Domestic money, like the dollar or euro, ultimately derives its value from being accepted by national governments in payment of taxes or other transactions with the public sector. That makes such money fungible. Money in that sense can be thought of as a public utility. But providing such curr...
transition, yet despite her concerns as a regional representative, she supported the coal phase-out: “If it hadn't been for the pressure, with an open pit mine on our doorstep and a power plant, which has brought in good business taxes for decades, would we have done it on our own?
In addition, the Arabs have received most of the government services including Health, Education, Social Welfare, Agriculture and Broadcasting Departments – services which are paid for by the taxes imposed on the population to which the Arabs, constituting two-thirds off the population of Palestine...
Raising taxes. • Cutting wages. Brüning urged Germans to make sacrifices and relied on Hindenburg to pass these measures. He felt a tough economic policy was needed in order to avoid hyperinflation. However, the policies did not stimulate the economy quickly ...