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by jayski 959 days ago
Denmark taxes car purchases at 150%. I think Singapore does something similar.
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Denmark taxes lower income rural residents disproportionally. Singapore is a city state.
While our car taxes are very high, the 150% is the top marginal rate and isn't applied to cheap economy boxes.
Not sure what that has to do with anything...

I wasn't commenting on the equality of the Danish tax system, or the status of Singapore.

I was just saying taxing car purchases is another idea to disincentivize cars.

In rural places car is neccessity everywhere in the world, but in urban it is not