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Originally Posted by Richard
I agree that the tax system is disfunctional. One of the reasons that the higher brackets have a higher tax is because they have more to write off. So whether I was working as a salaried employee or now with my own business, our joint family income has always been about in the middle of the brackets shown by Scuba Dave but my effective federal tax (taxes paid / total income) has been around 19%.
I would be in favor of a flat federal tax, but those in higher income brackets with write-offs have always fought against it.
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19% is a standard tax here too, for salaries, goods...
The best things about taxes are, that you have to pay tax from your earnings (at least 19%), than pay the tax for buying something (19% or more, in case of oils and petrol this tax here can rise up to 70%!!!) and when the seller sells you something, he has to pay the 19% income tax. After calculating, you generally get that you give your state (or at least here people give our state) more than 55% of all money that flows in the market. And those corrupt *******s steal that money! And so a slightly different and less pro-country approach is common among the middle and higher-class here (or generally in the former USSR Union and its satellites). Fortunatelly our laws here are so defect, that they offer you a variety of ways how not to effectively give the money to your state's tax department without committing anything bad or breaking any low.
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Originally Posted by harveyc
By the way, I'm about in the category of the 9th guy and I don't want to beat up the 10th guy!!!  |
Why would you beat me?
Not that I would be any rich, but I usually pay in the bar more than I drink.
Dunno how or why, someone usually doesn't have the cash with him or something. lol