Several countries use a dayfine system, we in Sweden have used dayfines since 1931, Finland since 1921, Germany since 1969, There are a few more countries using the system, but I could not quickly find any historical data about them.

Dayfines are great and should be used globaly.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 18 points 9 months ago (17 children)

A day-fine, day fine, unit fine or structured fine is a unit of payment for a legal fine which is based on the offender's daily personal income. It is intended as a punishment financially equivalent to incarceration for one day without salary, scaled to equal impacts on both high- and low-income offenders. An analogy may be drawn with income tax, which is also proportional to income, or even levied at higher rates for higher incomes.

Jurisdictions employing the day-fine include Denmark (Danish: dagbøde), Estonia (Estonian: päevamäär), Finland (Finnish: päiväsakko), France (French: Jour-amende), Germany (German: Tagessatz), Sweden (Swedish: dagsbot), Switzerland, and Macao.

Neat!

[–] nitneroc@lemmy.one 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Didn't know we had that in France, never heard of anyone paying a fine other than a fixed amount (and 90℅ of the time 135€)

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Sounds like lazy police

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