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There is a VAT exception for a VAT producing business? You build a building and you are not the consumer of the building?

You are not buying the building for resale to a consumer -- like a spec builder would do.

Each nation state has different rules on this. I can ask Monday about our buildings purchased in Marseilles, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Bucharest (all in the EU) -- my guess is the structuring is different in each nation-state.

What country are you referring to -- the Czech Republic's VAT tax law? There is no standardized code between EU nation-states much as we have 50 plus different State and Territorial Tax Codes to deal with here.

Transfer tax -- new name, same game: more taxes -- LOL -- that is an old joke here; to add a STX to all invoices ''state transfer tax'' there is no such thing but it looks like the abbreviation for sales tax so people may pay it to you on interstate sales ( a little trickery). If they call to complain say it's state transfer tax -- don't you pay that there ? Then take it off the bill and send your payment LOL.

If the government tried to enact a transfer tax like this on real estate transactions there would be riots in that state.

As an American when I travel in Europe most things are more expensive. Maybe, with the FX more favorable to me now the prices might seem more equivalent. Gouda cheese was cheap in Paris but the one bedroom apartment I booked for the week was new and was sold for 275K€ ($341K) this year -- nice place but you could do better in most nicer areas in the USA.

Apart from housing costs the transportation fuel costs are three times the price. Businesses move merchandise, lots of it. If you can move your merchandise digitally this in irrelevant -- if you put those goods on a truck it costs more.



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I am concerned with the disposable income people have to spend on our luxury product -- live webcam shows. If I was a farmer or a wholesaler in the food distribution business this would affect my costs to serve the local market I would need a higher price to profit -- so the only question is the volume that I could do -- as to where it is better to be in business. e.g.; do I sell 5 bananas in the USA for .10 and make .04 or can I sell 5 bananas in the EU for more cost in real terms and make .03 -- that 5 bananas would have to be 6 or 7 ... to favor either place.

When you are successful in business you have a good quality of life in either place -- I don't think that is an issue. Now, if you consider regulatory grief, that is another story there are differences but they are industry specific.