Norway is a great country. It is beautiful, it is clean, it has been rated many times as the best country to live or the best place to grow old but there is one problem with it (in addition to the weather): the high cost of living, especially when it comes to taxes. Here is an example of a toll receipt for a package I received today: (price in NOK, $1 being about 7 NOK) The first number represents the toll fees INCLUDING MVA (the Norwegian equivalent of VAT). What about the fourth one? It is MVA… again. Like: “OK, we[…]