Quote from: contagion on December 29, 2014, 05:41:27 PM

Are those income tax rates, excluding licensing fees, sales, VAT, inheritance, social security, health care, and property taxes? In most countries you'd need to add many percentage points for the rest of those. Obamacare for example will add the 2.5% Cadillac tax.

Yes its: income tax +VAT +social security + govt health care + other misc taxes that affect the average person.

Excluding: corporate tax, car tax, property tax,inheritance tax, and other misc taxes that could be avoided if you are not in that group.

Those listed above are only those taxes, that are paid by every single worker, no matter what, basically its the forced racket tax basket.

Because you could legally avoid: property tax with renting, car tax by using the bus, inheritance tax by rejecting the inheritance.

But you can't avoid legally the: income tax, VAT, (social security and healthcare you can if you are unemployed, but what good is that).

I dont know about other countries, but my country is the 6th most taxed country on Earth so no wonder i`m so angry about this.

In my country an average worker has to pay the following (based on current fresh data i`ve researched):
■ income tax 16%
■ unemployed fund rate 0.5%
■ social security 10.5%
■ government health care 5.5% (you must pay this even if you have private health care Huh

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■ VAT: 24% (even for groceries, the government promised that it will lower VAT for food in 2014 but they lied)
(Of course you get some tiny deductions if you are single parent or if you are handicapped but this is the average persons tax sheet)
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====TOTAL TAX FOR AVERAGE WORKER: 56.5%
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And this is only if you rent and are employed and own no additional stuff, here are some more taxes that also every person pays in my country
- property tax: i have no idea, its very complicated to calculate this
- TV tax: yes we have that too
- radio tax: yes we have that too
- car tax: i have no idea, its very complicated to calculate this
- green tax (for cars or old buildings): yes give me more taxes...
- customs tariffs
- other vehicle taxes: agriculture vehicles or any other vehicle
- other taxes that are levied on companies , but which companies pay through the people by incorporating into the price
- inflation: ~1% the official number, of course i bet that it's more like around 3% as the CB probably lies about this
- various other local fees and other locally collected rackets by the town hall
- (we dont have inheritance tax because our politicians launder too much money between acquaintances and they would get caught if they would implement this)

Yep, so add this all up and you see that about 70-80% of my income will definitely go to the government, one way or another. And this list doesnt even include luxury goods. This is just basic taxes that every working people pays who owns even a small cottage.

And should I not be angry about this ? They steal 80% of my income man, its horrible! Cry