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Re:Japan's Hometown Tax by oh_sigh on Friday October 19, 2018 @02:13PM (#18258725)
Italy generally pays ~3-4 billion euros more into the EU budget than it receives from the EU. Ireland is much more of a mooch than Italy

https://english.eu.dk/en/faq/net-contribution

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Re:Japan's Hometown Tax by daveoflynn on Friday October 19, 2018 @03:21PM (#18259230)
Ireland is, as of 2016, a net contributor to the EU; this year the country is expecting to contribute 2.7bn€

Source: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/ireland-s-contri...

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Re:Japan's Hometown Tax by jessriedel on Friday October 19, 2018 @02:48PM (#18259001)
That chart is a very welcome contribution to this discussion... but man is it terribly designed at both the web-design level and the data-presentation level.
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