Living with a pig
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When you live in a country as the Pigs’ “S”, you can feel the experience of being robbed legally almost for every official act you make, and by a multiple gang. The last example is just from a couple of hours ago.
If you want to work by yourself, then you have to ask for permission, and pay for it. Just for the paperwork set up, a cheap accountant will ask for about €100-150. Then you have to pay the state some more €250 monthly for the activity license. Then, when it comes the time to get paid, one has to charge 16% VAT, and declare that VAT every three months.
And all this is just for working at home with minimum expenses.
Now imagine that you get into a bad strike. Then you have to pay again €100-€150 to cease activity.
And the thing grows up if you were “brave” enough to create your own Ltd. company: if you have to close it, you can pay up to 50% the cost of setting up the Ltd: €1500 (the minimum for a spanish Ltd company)
After experiencing that in my own skin, and after the bank bail out in late 2008, and after the government’s anouncing of a general VAT raise… one can only be extremely amazed to hear finance ministry people complaining about the lack of solidarity of those in the “black economy”, being that a 23,3% of GDP in 2009.
Although I’m not on tax evasion, I can just smile, propose a toast for those 23,3% and go back to my own business building my escape route.
Meanwhile the country with no pilot wastes huge piles of tax money in travels to Europe for the finance minister (and her court) to tell everyone that “everything’s cool mates”, expresses its solidarity with Greece, asks the rest of the EU to pay for the rescue… and hopes that in short someone will do the same for it.
And that not to mention the greatest ‘underground’ “yes, we can” campaign that will end all the trouble: togetherwecanstraightenthingsout.org.
Obviously I won’t give a link, but I promise to talk about this robbery.
