We get taxed on LOTS of stuff here!!! Any magazine you can buy - is sooo much more expensive here (and no... its not just the cost of the postage over!).

Car tax is much worse than in the UK - I'm about to renew my car tax and it'll cost me 484 Euro!!! Alcohol is also very heavily taxed (not that it bothers me that much as I don't drink very often)

Having said that.... we don't pay extortionate council tax rates like in the UK, so I guess the tax money has to come from somewhere.... and also, it's a lovely country to live in (I'm not originally from here, so I'm not being biased!!) and I wouldn't swap it for anywhere else to live!