also, yeah, council taxes and land taxes are very small compared to income taxes and other bullshit, i mean the amount of taxes i pay to import stuff here is beyond crazy, 30%... and i'm supposed to also pay that same percentage out of my pay? you know that means that more than 60% of my money is going to buy bureaucrat's BMWs and pay for their luxury homes and their luxury cocaine i'm not paying one cent i can avoid paying and if they want to send violent men after me i'll just get away from this gang's territory, it's not rocket science and yeah, there isn't many places in the world where there isn't a whole load of people with their hands out expecting you to pay for their extravagant, self important existences, so DYOR and go find some place where you can pay a more bearable amount of protection money and be mostly left alone this is why i don't own a car, the number of ways in which they make excuses to rob you over the supposed convenience overrides the value of the object in my opinion, i already left one country over the outrageous amount of money i was supposed to give to politicians and their buddies for the privilege of riding a pissy little 50cc motor scooter around