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1) They are super, super aggressive when it comes to tax things. Cheating on taxes is worse than some major crimes! Which major crimes would that be? I'm a Dane, and this sounds ridiculous to me. 2) They are culturally anti-business and anti-entrepreneurial. That is way overstating it at best, and at worst just BS. True, we in the Nordic countries (or at least in Denmark), don't have quite the reverence for business…
My (half) brother is Danish. The 'anti tax' statement is his, told to me, while I was in Denmark. The Danish tax authorities have to know specific things about your status - including if you carpool to work or not, in order to establish your tax status. They tax in a different way there - they establish your 'effective rate', rather than doing tons of deductions. Whether or not you carpool for example, affects your r…
Re: Sweden proposes ban on ride-sharing services that make profits
#221Denmark has gotten a lot better at encouraging business growth, lowering the capital requirement for registering a private company and introducing a new "start-up" business type that costs 1-DKK to register. With that business type you have three years to grow up to the capitalization level of private company and your qualification as such once you do achieve that level is pretty much automatic, at least as far as I can recall from my Knowlege Based Entrepreneurship class from a year ago. The start-up business type is mostly unknown, as it hasn't been marketed very well to the public. I'm glad I got to learn about it because it seems quite a bit easier and cheaper than starting a similar company in the US.