Could this be partially due to the complexity of Finnish taxes?
Downvoted for a question? 😆
How interesting, it’s the same phenomenon in Denmark.
(though probably not the chinese restaurants, as far as i’ve read. but certainly kebab and pizza places – and “bazaars”.
> “All types of misconduct are clearly more common in foreign-owned companies,”
Right. What even is the point of saying this? It’s actually just snitching on yourself.
“Man, I guess I lost my cookie.” “I definitely didn’t steal it.” “What?”
In these fun cultures following the rules is seen as idiotic, as a weakness, especially if they are not enforced constantly.
Few years ago there was a pizza restaurant in Helsinki, which sold huge delicious pizzas for 4,90 euros. A glass of soft drink was free. I liked the place, visited there often, but I had a suspicion that not ALL taxes were paid.
do barbers next
You won’t get cheap takeout, if they are paying all their taxes.
What the hell? Are you saying that the 6€ pizza didn’t include all the taxes. I’ll be damned.
I understand the point but give these guys a bit of slack please. We want affordable delicious kebab in the future🙏😖
How are they avoiding the taxes? How to they hide the revenue, doesn’t everyone pay with card or contactless now? Who buys pizza with cash anymore?
Will still prefer Pizza from these rather eating overpriced Pizza and zero taste from KotiPizza etc
and their food is generally inedible too 😀😀 those kebab should be illegal to sell
what about taxis? And those blaming traditional kebabs and pizzas whatever. K**ipizza franchises also hires people on cash too.
Just yesterday I had some takeaway from local indian restaurant, which I had not tried out before. I was surprised how ”expensive” the place was, with dishes going for 20 or more euros. I just figured this place most likely pays its taxes, then.
Anyways, the food was good. Not awesome.
I stopped going to a city center hair chopping place because the last time I was there, I observed a Japanese tourist wondering why the cost of haircut was different than when she asked before the procedure. Obviously the cheap price was for cash, the other price was with card. So that at least one person who thinks Helsinki is a tax-dodging city.
Yeah the reason all these Chinese and Pizza place can keep such a low price is low wage worker and tax evasion by cash … it’s up to personal preference, I don’t really care
While it is certainly possible and maybe even plausible that places ran by foreigners are more likely to have issues, this particular investigation does in fact border on being racist. In the article itself it says that their target selection was skewed towards such establishments. So essentially “We found 11m in unpaid taxes in kebab shops and Chinese restaurants (because we pretty much looked only at those)”.
I am unaware if there exists publicly available information on the food industry in general, but this one sure sounds biased.
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Tip of the iceberg.
Could this be partially due to the complexity of Finnish taxes?
Downvoted for a question? 😆
How interesting, it’s the same phenomenon in Denmark.
(though probably not the chinese restaurants, as far as i’ve read. but certainly kebab and pizza places – and “bazaars”.
> “All types of misconduct are clearly more common in foreign-owned companies,”
Right. What even is the point of saying this? It’s actually just snitching on yourself.
“Man, I guess I lost my cookie.” “I definitely didn’t steal it.” “What?”
In these fun cultures following the rules is seen as idiotic, as a weakness, especially if they are not enforced constantly.
Few years ago there was a pizza restaurant in Helsinki, which sold huge delicious pizzas for 4,90 euros. A glass of soft drink was free. I liked the place, visited there often, but I had a suspicion that not ALL taxes were paid.
do barbers next
You won’t get cheap takeout, if they are paying all their taxes.
What the hell? Are you saying that the 6€ pizza didn’t include all the taxes. I’ll be damned.
I understand the point but give these guys a bit of slack please. We want affordable delicious kebab in the future🙏😖
How are they avoiding the taxes? How to they hide the revenue, doesn’t everyone pay with card or contactless now? Who buys pizza with cash anymore?
Will still prefer Pizza from these rather eating overpriced Pizza and zero taste from KotiPizza etc
and their food is generally inedible too 😀😀 those kebab should be illegal to sell
what about taxis? And those blaming traditional kebabs and pizzas whatever. K**ipizza franchises also hires people on cash too.
Just yesterday I had some takeaway from local indian restaurant, which I had not tried out before. I was surprised how ”expensive” the place was, with dishes going for 20 or more euros. I just figured this place most likely pays its taxes, then.
Anyways, the food was good. Not awesome.
I stopped going to a city center hair chopping place because the last time I was there, I observed a Japanese tourist wondering why the cost of haircut was different than when she asked before the procedure. Obviously the cheap price was for cash, the other price was with card. So that at least one person who thinks Helsinki is a tax-dodging city.
Yeah the reason all these Chinese and Pizza place can keep such a low price is low wage worker and tax evasion by cash … it’s up to personal preference, I don’t really care
While it is certainly possible and maybe even plausible that places ran by foreigners are more likely to have issues, this particular investigation does in fact border on being racist. In the article itself it says that their target selection was skewed towards such establishments. So essentially “We found 11m in unpaid taxes in kebab shops and Chinese restaurants (because we pretty much looked only at those)”.
I am unaware if there exists publicly available information on the food industry in general, but this one sure sounds biased.
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