Sweden Wants to Fight Disposable Culture with Tax Breaks for Repairing Old Stuff

Re:Sweden Wants to Fight Disposable Culture with Tax Breaks ... by titzer on Monday September 26, 2016 @04:19AM (#12580137)

Wouldn't a high sales tax promote exactly that?

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Re:Sweden Wants to Fight Disposable Culture with Tax Breaks ... by eveningcoffee on Monday September 26, 2016 @04:26AM (#12580170)

Sales tax also applies to the services.

More over, as labor is highly taxed in Sweden, it makes local repairing disproportionally more expensive compared to the manufacturing in a country with smaller labor costs.

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Re:Sweden Wants to Fight Disposable Culture with Tax Breaks ... by charlesdm on Monday September 26, 2016 @05:11AM (#12580362)

> More over, as labor is highly taxed in Sweden, it makes local repairing disproportionally more expensive compared to the manufacturing in a country with smaller labor costs.

Sounds like a very clear flaw in their economic and taxation model.

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Re:Sweden Wants to Fight Disposable Culture with Tax Breaks ... by eveningcoffee on Friday September 30, 2016 @12:13PM (#12613331)

This flaw is called free trade. This problem used to be fixed by higher customs. But we generally prefer free trade, so they have to try other initiatives.

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Re:Sweden Wants to Fight Disposable Culture with Tax Breaks ... by ximi on Monday September 26, 2016 @05:10AM (#12580355)

Sweden already has a Value Added Tax (somewhat equivalent to Sales Tax) of 25%

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