Ouch! Here we pay between 20-40% on income tax, it goes up the more you make, most pay around 20-30%.

For Sales tax there is a federal sales tax of 5%, and then most provinces add another 5-8%, except Alberta. No provincial sales tax in Alberta.

Health care is provincially funded so it varies from province to province but in Alberta we pay for it out of the oil/gas revenues. In other words the rest of the world pays for our health care. Thanks guys!

However I think most Scandinavian countries helps with post secondary? Here you can apply for grants and loans but you are pretty lucky to get a bachelors degree and not walk away $30,000 in debt.....

 

I have to pay about 15% income tax and 20% for healthcare (roughly). But that´s just for me because my income is not that high. The more money I earn the higher the income tax becomes. Our tax system is pretty complex, so it´s difficult to explain. I found a picture which might help:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...gle_zve_55.jpg
1st column: income in €
2nd column: income tax in €
3rd column: income tax in %
4th column: tax for every € above income (see 1st column)

As for education in Scandinavia, user Erska is from Finland and might be able to explain it in more detail. In general their educational system has a pretty high standard. For example Norway is spending a huge amount of money for it. Anyone who moves from another country to Norway recieves language training free of charge. And I´m pretty sure students won´t have $ 30,000 in debt

 

If you get 2 weeks vacation , that means 10 working day . Weekends are weekends . Monday thru Friday is one week. I feel pretty luck , I've been with the same company for 27 years and i get 6 weeks (30 days) vacation/holiday , 11 observed company holidays and 180 sick days (must have a note from the doc.) and 3 just because I've been worked to hard days.

 

1-5 years 2 weeks /10 days
5-10 years 3 weeks /15 days
10-20 years 4 weeks / 20 days
20-30 years 5 weeks / 25 days
30+ years 6 weeks / 30 days
plus 10 paid Holidays

I work 28/28 so I don't take vacations. I sell mine back to the company at the end of the year. Is this a great country or what?

 

35% income tax sounds about right before you start pulling deductions.
another 8.5% to 9.75% sales tax on everything (depends on city tax).
Gas is running $2.659/gallon right now.
Beer isn't the only thing in Norway with a luxury tax. Anything with sugar has an additional tax. If I remember right, a .5L coke is about $5 while a .5L of beer (tao or ringnes) is about $10 Spirits are unheard of unless you pick them up in the duty free on the way in.
As for norway, sure, taxes and prices are high, but the engineers I talked to were making an easy million NOK/year.