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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In case you’re serious; in most places in the world, cars are a luxury and taxed as such. In island nation in particular, imports are also very expensive in general and import taxes are most of their revenues.

TLDR: tax the rich, poor don’t need cars in sane cities.

[–] Blamemeta 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, thats mainly just singapore and vietnam.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of island nations have extreme import taxes on cars. See: every Caribbean island.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

developing countries always have the highest taxes. i'm not aware of a single developing country that has cheap cars...