Speeding Fines

[andrewducker]

octopoid_horror let me know about the Finnish system of administering speeding fines:
KPH over the speed limit x daily salary.

So if you're 10KPH over the speed limit and earn hundreds of thousands of pounds a year, then you're in for quite a large fine.

Apparently this is how all reasonable sized fines work in Finland - they're expressed in days of pay.

I'm in favour.

Comments

[matgb]

I'm not sure, but I think Finland is one of the countries that both published the amount of tax each person pays each year and taxes all income at the same rate, including bonuses and similar.

Thus it would, if this is the case, include such things.

Strangely, those countries that publish their tax receipts also have almost non-existent gender pay differentials and a significantly lower gini coefficient (last I looked at the numbers), can't think why...