| ▲ | teiferer 3 hours ago | |||||||
About 90% of Norway's 40 GW energy production (mostly hydro) is state owned. By exporting energy and thereby getting other countries to pay, the money literally goes to the norwegian people. Not directly into their bank accounts, but into their govt budgets, which they later pay less in taxes. | ||||||||
| ▲ | varjag an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
Norwegian power generation is sized for the domestic market, so tax income from selling excess is marginal at best. The power bills however have indeed crept quite a way up. This was especially noticeable in the first winter of the Russian invasion, when the Nordics had to subsidize the bill that suddenly dropped on short-sighted German energy policy. | ||||||||
| ▲ | bear141 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
Do they actually pay less in taxes because of this? I’m not arguing. That is great and I would appreciate if you could provide a source for me to read. | ||||||||
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| ▲ | TeMPOraL 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
Right, but people tend to be oblivious to anything that's not on their bank accounts. | ||||||||