No, they dont get anything from my salary, they do however take a share of the profits of my funds every year.
In EU you only pay tax on the salary in the country you earn it and you are located. If I were to buy an item from an E-store located in Germany, I still have to pay full Irish VAT, and 0% german VAT.
By VAT I'm assuming you mean what we call "sales tax". Here in San Antonio when we buy anything other than food or medicine, we pay 8¼% sales tax. That's 6¼% for the state of Texas and 2% for the city of San Antonio. In every state/city it's different. So when you say VAT is this what you mean? If so, how much is Irish sales tax and are food and medicine exempt?
I thought you had VAT, after a quick google, VAT does not exist in the US.
Vat here is Value added tax, in some countries it is galled Goods and services Tax. (GST)
According to wikipedia, the approximate equivilant in the US would be 'Sales and use tax'. Except puerto rico, which has both VAT and Sales and use tax.
I know food is exempt from VAT Ireland. Sugar has a separate tax, known as 'Sugar tax'.
The tax on electronics in ireland is I think 21%.'
Dont know the rates for medicine. In sweden you get it almost for free once you pay like $150~ for approved medicine. Might be wrong. Never had expensive medicine.
The VAT rates I remember in sweden are:
6% food at resturaunt, taxi, airplane,
12% for food in store,staying at a hotel, and artists selling their own art.
25% for electronics, and basically everything else, general tax
But in sweden we also pay additional tax/fees that is added ontop of this for some items, such as storage devices.
"Private copy tax"
(10 sek = 1.21 usd, 10 sek = 0.98 eur)
Phone storage
4.38 SEK per gigabyte, no price cap. (A phone with 512gb storage costs 2245SEK/$271/€220 extra. )
Harddrive/SSD for computer
1.25 SEK per gigabyte, capped at 100SEK.(12usd, 9.8 euro)
CD-R
0.75 SEK per disk.
DVD -r/+r double layer (8gb total)
6 SEK per disk.
This fee, does luckily not exist in Ireland.
Making phones and harddrives much cheaper here.