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- Fri Dec 06, 2019 8:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: Free healthcare comes at a price
- Replies: 82
- Views: 2989
Re: Free healthcare comes at a price
With regards to funding, the government are the ones that have done their sums and said 4% will pay for the treatment for patients... That´s what I don´t believe. E. g. the cost of the German healthcare system amounts to 12% of GDP. If I remember correctly that number is 9% for the UK. How can 4% o...
- Thu Dec 05, 2019 10:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: Free healthcare comes at a price
- Replies: 82
- Views: 2989
Re: Free healthcare comes at a price
With regards to funding, the government are the ones that have done their sums and said 4% will pay for the treatment for patients... That´s what I don´t believe. E. g. the cost of the German healthcare system amounts to 12% of GDP. If I remember correctly that number is 9% for the UK. How can 4% o...
- Thu Dec 05, 2019 7:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: Future of gas in Europe and what it means for Cyprus
- Replies: 12
- Views: 557
Re: Future of gas in Europe and what it means for Cyprus
Where I´m from there is photovoltac installation mounted on a revolvable basis which follows the sun, driven by an old church-clockwork. I wonder why that´s not standard everywhere (ok, doesn´t have to be church-clockwork).
- Thu Dec 05, 2019 8:14 am
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: Free healthcare comes at a price
- Replies: 82
- Views: 2989
Re: Free healthcare comes at a price
If I remember correctly it will rise to less than 4% of your income. I highly doubt that will be enough to provide for a decent level of health care.
- Sun Dec 01, 2019 9:15 pm
- Forum: Financial Matters
- Topic: Cyprus Tax Declaration from 2019
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1378
- Sun Dec 01, 2019 6:24 pm
- Forum: Financial Matters
- Topic: Cyprus Tax Declaration from 2019
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1378
Re: Cyprus Tax Declaration from 2019
''The current year will be the last year when it will not be mandatory for a Cypriot tax resident under the tax-free annual income limit of €19500 to file a tax return. From 2019 everyone will be required to submit a tax declaration'' (Article dated October 2018). http://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en...
- Sun Dec 01, 2019 7:44 am
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: Central heating without diesel/gas in Cyprus...
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1380
Re: Central heating without diesel/gas in Cyprus...
Our house didn't have the means for central heating but we put it in entirely internally (no heat losses to the outside world). We had the pipes run in white-painted steel channels which are up against the ceilings and are never seen. There are smaller drop channels housing the two pipes above each...
- Sun Dec 01, 2019 7:39 am
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: Free healthcare comes at a price
- Replies: 82
- Views: 2989
Re: Free healthcare comes at a price
I have one atorvastatin tablet each day, and the Pharmacy give me 2 boxes of 14.. But on my monthly prescription it does say 2 boxes.. So I think your friend needs to revisit the doctor and have the prescription changed.. I fail to understand why drug companies package many of their medicines as pa...
- Mon Nov 11, 2019 10:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: The Wall....Berlin Germany 1989, today 30 years ago(video)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 367
Re: The Wall....Berlin Germany 1989, today 30 years ago(video)
In East Berlin it was somewhat better as it was prioritised when it came to supplies. In 1978 we were eating a 3 course meal (flambeéd at the table) at the restaurant next to the mayor´s hall for 6 Eastern marks. The official exchange rate to DM was 1:1 but the black market rate was 1:10. In front o...
- Mon Nov 11, 2019 10:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: Phone code for cheap mobile calls to UK
- Replies: 12
- Views: 630
Re: Phone code for cheap mobile calls to UK
I don´t know about this but you can use voip services like dialnow.com or voipbuster.com and get dirt cheap prices (e.g. dialnow: 0,6 cent/min) from your smartphone.
- Sun Nov 10, 2019 7:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: The Wall....Berlin Germany 1989, today 30 years ago(video)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 367
Re: The Wall....Berlin Germany 1989, today 30 years ago(video)
Very interesting post. Thank you !
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You´re welcome. If interested you can read more about it here: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/07/euro ... index.html
- Sun Nov 10, 2019 3:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: The Wall....Berlin Germany 1989, today 30 years ago(video)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 367
Re: The Wall....Berlin Germany 1989, today 30 years ago(video)
So, it was no wonder when people left the place towards West Germany, but for many it was not easy to cope with normal 10-11 working hours a day, specially when they used to work only a couple of hours/day in their previous jobs. It was also not easy for people in Western Germany to come up with th...
- Sun Nov 10, 2019 3:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: Banks getting greedy - governments says it will act
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1119
Re: Banks getting greedy - governments says it will act
In my Germany bank account (which is completely free of any charges) and my broker account.
- Sun Nov 10, 2019 7:24 am
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: Banks getting greedy - governments says it will act
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1119
Re: Banks getting greedy - governments says it will act
Do you even need a Cypriot bank account anymore given that there are services like revolut.com? Does anybody have experience with them? Are they reliable and convenient?
- Sun Nov 10, 2019 7:18 am
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: The Wall....Berlin Germany 1989, today 30 years ago(video)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 367
Re: The Wall....Berlin Germany 1989, today 30 years ago(video)
People forgot what life in communist Eastern Germany was like. I will never forget those 2 trips I had taken there before the wall came down. E. g. the intimidating search process you were subjected to at the border. Or that the hotel restaurant had a 5 page menu but you could only order a sandwich ...
- Fri Nov 08, 2019 4:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: Akrotiri and Larnaca Airport at risk of sinking
- Replies: 13
- Views: 785
- Fri Nov 08, 2019 10:37 am
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: Akrotiri and Larnaca Airport at risk of sinking
- Replies: 13
- Views: 785
Re: Akrotiri and Larnaca Airport at risk of sinking
at the end of each of the ice ages somehow the ice in the glaciers somehow melted, and as a result a huge amount of water from the huge glaciers resulted. The result being a dramatic rise in sea levels? Yes, that´s why Great Britain has been an island since the end of the last ice age. It wasn´t al...
- Thu Nov 07, 2019 6:26 am
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: They're dropping like flies
- Replies: 75
- Views: 2788
- Mon Oct 21, 2019 8:03 pm
- Forum: Financial Matters
- Topic: Cyprus Tax Declaration from 2019
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1378
Re: Cyprus Tax Declaration from 2019
Looking at note 7 of the Deloitte leaflet, it says that we don't have to pay the Special Defence Contribution until we have been resident for 17 of the last 20 years preceding the year of the return. True, because that makes you a non-domiciled resident (unless your dad was Cypriot in which case yo...