Taxonomy

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In Sweden we have experience from taxonomy since the last 40 years. Taxonomy is a matter of control of not only enterprises but also the individuals. It is the ultimate way of implement ubiquitous control a la DDR, but without torture and a costly STASI organisation. The tax authority is outermost profitable.

To make the tax burden so high that no one can survive, companies or individuals, without subsidies from the state. It is a tremendous tool for the state to control not only behaviour but also thoughts. If journalism can’t be funded by the income from selling newspapers, the journalism will be dependent on subsidies. If the journalism gives the right narrative the subsidies will come, and everybody is happy.

We shall keep in mind that taxonomy is self-evolving. When it has once been taken in to force the fruits are hanging to low for the politicians to resist, and there will never be an ethical limit what can be achieved.

Sweden have a nasty way of naming things that make it difficult to get the view of what the tax level is. Several invented words that cover the actual tax that must be paid for the income of work.

To make the calculation more transparent we must look what happens if the employer pays the employee 1000 SEK (100 €).

There is a tax level below 540700 SEK (53497 €) annual pay. The employer pays only municipally tax. The highest tax in municipalities is 35%

This will give 650 to the employer and 350 to the municipality.

In addition, the employer must pay 31,42% tax on the 1000 SEK (Arbetsgivareavgift). This will give the state additionally 314,2 SEK.

The level of VAT is mainly 25% in Sweden. This will be 20% if you count the VAT on the price with the VAT included. If the employee uses his money which most people must, he will pay 650x0,20= 130 SEK

Hence the employee will get 650-130=520 SEK.

The authorities will get 350+314,2+130=794,2 SEK

The total cost for the employer will be 1314,20 SEK

The tax part which is taken by the authorities is 60,43%

The next tax level for the 1000 SEK above 45000 SEK (4500€) per month will give an additional tax of 20% on the income.

Hence the calculation will be 360 to the employee and 954,20 SEK to the authorities.

The percentage of tax will be 72,60%

To make it even more complicated the tax system has a base deduction. This is always mentioned to be of great importance when discussion the tax levels. The highest base duction is 36700 for an annual income of 129500 (12950€) or 12000 (1200€) per month. For incomes higher than that the base deduction goes quickly down to 14000 SEK.

This about the effective tax on income.

Now to the taxonomy. There are several extra taxes on specific articles in the name of all the good causes the socialistic government together with the environment fundamentalists have invented.

Energy is the main source of taxation since most people are depending on electricity and fuel.

The tax on electricity is 0,356 SEK / kW plus VAT which will make about 0,445 SEK. This together with the VAT on the residual price will make a tax level far above 50%.

Petrol has the fixed tax of 6,74 SEK/ litre. Off course the VAT comes on top of the fixed tax.

The tax of energy has mainly been about two thirds of the price.

Now we come to the taxonomy issue in Sweden. If you must travel some distance to reach out for your work, the expense you have is deductible from the tax.

But the government want us to go by bus or train to save the environment. Hence the rule is that you must save 3 hours a day to go by car to be eligible for deduction. If the journey takes 2,5 hours with bus one way and 1,10 hour with the car you will only save 2,40 hours a day.

The working time in Sweden is 8 hours, and you spend 5 hours on the bus or train. The 11 hours you can spend in your home to recover for the next day is dear. Maybe you need to buy food in the grocery store as well.

Since the average pay in Sweden is about 24000 SEK per month, 15600 after tax, there are normally not a choice. Be a good proletarian and take the bus. There is no need for any Gulag camps, or Stalinist torture. May you rest in heaven. At least you don’t have time to ask yourself why your money is given to someone who make art of her menstruation blood.

But we pay the tax to get a lot of good things in return from the state. Like medical treatment which is almost free. But it will be beneficial for the climate if people lived centralized in the drabant villages the social democratic party built during the sixties.

If you need to see a doctor and you live some 300 km from the hospital. You cannot get any coverage of your expense if there are a possibility to catch a train or bus. Even though you need a stay over night to travel with the train back again the expense for using your car will not be deductible. The loss of income will not be considered. If your child has leukaemia and need treatment each week, it’s your problem.

It would have been revealing to perform a great moving campaign a la Soviet. But with the taxonomy the same achievement but with other measures. The loss of human dignity is the same.

Another of the advantages of taxonomy is that there will never be any spare founds in the society to challenge the social democratic party. There are still a few families with fortunes left that might not be connected to the party, but there will never emerge any new.

The party has raised a case against Adolf Lundin, for suspicion of irregular conduct during some explorations 20 years ago in Africa. The entrepreneur Karl Hedin has been warned and will probably keep a low profile the rest of his life after the treatment he got in connection with the wolf case.

There is no deduction for charity in the Swedish tax system. If someone will fund for example a new political party this needs to be done with money that’s left after the stringent tax regime.

The corporate tax is decreased in Sweden to some 20%. But meanwhile the rules for lifting profit from a company has been changed. Almost all income from a company is taxed as income of work. (se the levels above) Since there is only one third left of the margins, any real threat to the party is outermost weak.

The social democratic party has built a platform of voluntary associations controlling almost all branches of necessities in the society. The rental market is administered my HSB, which will give an income from 350 000 rental apartments in Sweden. The COOP owning food retail and petrol stations. Beside all income from protection via the unions. Not to mention the soft nepotism of the Wallenberg family.

The chief strategist from the social democratic party is sent to EU to educate the parliament in the noble art of soft authoritarian control. Margot Wallstöm educated the EU administration how to control the media. While the most skilled in socialistic authoritarianism is the former Stalinist Ylva Johansson.

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