How much is 18.5 million Euros? [Update: 27 mil...and counting]

It is hard to imagine how much money a million dollars or a million Euros is. So, when a famous German shorts the state by 18.5 million, how much is it?

Here is a very much rounded view of the income of a poor German in the last two years (it's 10 thousand a year, to save you the counting):

And here is the amount of taxes one man in Germany did not pay:

We are at 100 thousand Euros. Which is ten years worth of the poor German's 10 K a year above. Let's continue. We shrank the first 100 thousand into one block like this:

We are at 200 thousand. Twenty years worth of the poor German's.

300 thousand to here. Thirty years of the poor guy's worth.

At 400 thou. Forty years of the poor guy.

500 thou done! The poor person is likely to be dead at this point.

600 thousand Euros.

700 thousand.

800 thousand.

900 thousand.

1 million Euros in 500 Euro banknotes!
18 times as much (18 of these blog posts in a row) gets you closer to the amount of taxes not paid by the individual the press is fawning and yawning about.


One more thing:
The image of the 500 Euro note is from Wikipedia, with the "specimen" print clear across. We cropped it a bit, too, in case you wonder or feel tempted.

[Update 11 March] Oi, we are now at 27 million in unpaid taxes and counting. He'll get a month in jail and five years probation? Just a conjecture.