• telllos@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The sad part is that Europe is seeing a lot of SUVs too. Not as big as whzt we see in the US. But they are there. We also start seeing american style pick up trucks. Luckily, people pay more taxes for these kind of cars.

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      1 year ago

      In Switzerland there was apparently some kind of loophole in the tax system which allowed you to register your pickup truck as a company vehicle (and pay less) even when you don’t have any company or if you are just working as a hairdresser…

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        1 year ago

        Same in the UK. Very curious how all over the world, governments created exactly the same tax loophole. I can’t think which highly resourced industry might have been involved in “advising” them

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          1 year ago

          At least in Switzerland, people were really using them for work until a few days ago.

          It was only farmers, carpenters or builders until it became a trend.

          I guess the law was okay before but they never thought that someone would want to have such a huge vehicle just to get groceries 😅