Multimedia Tax

If I said Denmark is one of the country that impose high tax (if not highest) in the world, I believe nobody can object to that. I'm beginning to believe that in Denmark, the politicians seem to be able to find 'opportunities' to tax everywhere. On top of the normal income tax, church contribution tax, media license fee and now, the new multimedia tax.

So what is multimedia tax? Well, basically if you have company issued phone or laptop; company paid SIM card or internet fee or anything that's provided by the work place but you have the possibility of using it for personal usage (using work laptop at home for personal purpose, like...erm...watch a you tube video) and BOOM! you're subjected to the new multimedia tax.

Is it expensive? not really, it comes up to around DKK3000 annually before tax, so between DKK1300 - DKK1700 yearly depending on which tax class you belong to. Basically, I call it envy tax. Of course for those who benefited from company paid stuffs are now being taxed but poor employee like me who's just got a work laptop need to pay tax too if I bring the laptop home.

Of course I benefited from having a (work) computer at home but judging its weight on the scale, maybe I should just buy a new laptop during my up-coming Japan trip, hehe...