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http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE5135E320090204?feedType=RSS&feedName=lifestyleMolt&rpc=22&sp=true>>
>>Why do they run out of money on the 15th?
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>Maybe that is the normal date for some major payment, like rent.
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>France seems to have some interesting taxes, such as a "Community Charge":
https://www.cic.fr/en/bank/personal-banking/settling-in-france/tax-system-in-france/index.htmlWe have this tax in GB. It's what used to be called "Rates". Under Thatcher they tried to change rates to "poll tax" (council tax) which, you may recall, causes riots. Nowadays I pay far more in Comm. Charge than I ever did as poll tax.
I thought this was equiv. to a US "local tax". In effect, in GB anyway, this is used to pay for local amenities, such as street lighting, refuse collection, the police, etc.
Having written that I'm now not sure whether we have council tax or community charge here :-) to paraphrase Shakespeare "A thorn by any other name ..."
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
