Monday, September 04, 2006
Horsens Moms Fri Zone - Tax Free Zone
For the Rolling Stones concert, as a special treat, the Danish Government set up a "Moms Fri Zone" in Horsens. Moms is a purchase tax in Denmark that currently runs to 25%. So everything without Moms made purchases the equivalent of 20% off. It was rather like Christmas, but without the nauseating decorations and music. The people wandering up the street carrying flat screen televisions rather reminded me of a trail of leaf cutter ants...
A big jug of beer for 40Dkr! What a party: I feel sure many never managed to get as far as the concert, not unaided anyways.
Well, as soon as I hit the street it was off to the towns bicycle shop, trying to avoid any and all distractions. Little booklet in hand: is the bicycle shop part of the zone? Can't see it in the list, oh no! Yet a shop further out is on the list, so it is in the zone!!
Yes, the bicycle shop had the 'Tax Free' notices, great! Now to buy a superlight titanium hideously expensive toy, yum, and worry about how to pay for it later.
Does the shop have a Moots? A Setavento? Litespeed? Oh no... But they do have a lovely selection of mountain bikes, even a Felt gayer. Don't want a MTB, so had to stand back and watch as a young friend, Martin, received a new mountain bike from his mother, it was his birthday after all, and I am not at all jealous, seeth, seeth.
A big jug of beer for 40Dkr! What a party: I feel sure many never managed to get as far as the concert, not unaided anyways.
Well, as soon as I hit the street it was off to the towns bicycle shop, trying to avoid any and all distractions. Little booklet in hand: is the bicycle shop part of the zone? Can't see it in the list, oh no! Yet a shop further out is on the list, so it is in the zone!!
Yes, the bicycle shop had the 'Tax Free' notices, great! Now to buy a superlight titanium hideously expensive toy, yum, and worry about how to pay for it later.
Does the shop have a Moots? A Setavento? Litespeed? Oh no... But they do have a lovely selection of mountain bikes, even a Felt gayer. Don't want a MTB, so had to stand back and watch as a young friend, Martin, received a new mountain bike from his mother, it was his birthday after all, and I am not at all jealous, seeth, seeth.
# posted by threaded @ 9/04/2006 08:45:00 am 
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