Articles written by Andreas Pedersen

Andreas Pedersen|Updated Aug 30, 2016

As a Dane who was an exchange student in Sisters at SHS last year, living with the Bachtold family, I read with great interest the letter to the editor written by Bruce Carpenter in The Nugget and would like to correct some of the inaccuracies in that letter about my country. No country in Scandinavia has a 70 percent tax rate. The highest tax rate is 59 percent and it only applies under special circumstances. If someone makes the local equivalent of $200,000, they would have to pay 45.7 percent in Sweden, 45.6 percent in... Full story