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- From: magic@visi.net (Scott Czarcinski)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: VAT & AT Surfer Package
- Date: 14 Mar 1996 00:29:46 GMT
- Organization: Visionary Systems InterNetNews site
- Message-ID: <2613.6646T1107T1618@visi.net>
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- >In article <4hrfle$utb@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George
- >Noel) writes:
- >> In article <4hnafl$hkj@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>,
- >> Byron Montgomerie <bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> wrote:
- >> >
- >> >I asked because of the 'applied in most european countries' bit. If it is
- >> >just a german retail sales tax (why mention it with MSRP?) then fine.
- >>
- >> Not specifically German as it is used in most European countries though
- >> how much it is changes from country to country.. Ie: in the UK it is
- >> 17.5% They mentioned it with the MSRP just to have the tax included with
- >> the final suggested retail price... maybe has something to do with those
- >> "why do dumb Europeans buy Amiga?" posts! :)
-
- ><afaik>
-
- >All EC members ("most European countries") have an equivalent tax, which
- >according to EC rules *must be at least* 15 percent. The rationale behind
- >this goes something like this: If you lower your VAT too much, your economy
- >will grow and your country will become richer, which isn't fair to the other
- >members.
-
- ></afaik>
-
- >The member countries probably agreed to this rule because rich countries are
- >again taxed higher *by* the EC. Sometimes I wonder whether all this means
- >that most madmen are made by politicians or that most politicians are made
- >from madmen...
-
-
- >> I wonder if they will have to stick with "Surf Pack" instead of "Surfer
- >> Pack" to keep Brother Inc. (or whatever that US PC company is) from suing
- >> them seeing as Brother has released a "Surfer Pack" for PCs in NA first.
- >> Still not bad, but I just think Surfer Pack sounds a bit better.
-
- >Now if only they could put the whole shebang into ROMs, put it on a Zorro
- >card together with the included modem and sell the whole thing as the
- >SurfBoard(tm)...
-
-
- If you put all of that on a card, slap into a 1200 ('030/6Meg Ram); You have
- the true $500 (Inter)-Networked computer. (The kind Sun (I think) wants to
- put on the market>. - Imagine, ahead of Sun and/or SGI in system development!!!
-
- Can you say "BIG-BOOST" in market share?!?!?!?!
-
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