Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tarek Charara wrote: > le 22.02.2002 20:12, Steve Unsworth à mail@steveunsworth.co.uk a écrit : > > > As you say, prices seem high everywhere, certainly in Paris, any idea why? > > Or is it just for historical reasons? > > I guess the reasons are: > > 1) rent > 2) taxes > 3) VAT I doubt that the rent for a shop in France (I am not just talking about Paris here) is higher than, say, in Cologne (home of Foto Lambertin) or Frankfurt (Foto Hobby). Taxes are also similar in the two countries, and the French VAT is only 3.6 percentage points higher than the German one (19.6% vs. 16%); the price differences are much greater than that. Nathan - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html