9995 Introduction to the Economies and Business of East Asia Swedish taxes are typical and plentiful. Prominent is also the organization of the system, and the effectiveness of tax collection. Yet, it is a system that our politicians are rather ashamed of.
Tax is dirty.
This could be referred to as a cultural difference, but I will in this essay try to illustrate that this mainly reflects the crises in Beijing in keeping China strongly centrally governed. Furthermore, I intend to cover some of the hottest political issues today from the point of differences between the Swedish and the Chinese tax systems. General fundamental differences Sweden is considered a very well organised society. Therefore taxes can easily be collected in a great number of ways like VAT, corporate taxes and capital taxes. Taxes are used as an effective means of equalising income disparities.