Re: They gave their lives....

[Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten]

Steve Sloan schreef:

> Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
>
> > I don't think I do. At least not all taxes. If I don't wanne
> > pay all of the rather high taxrates (especially those paying
> > for the social security) in the Netherlands I can ask for
> > exemption of them (this saves up to 27%? in incometaxes). But
> > then I also cannot profit from the benifits those taxes pay
> > for anymore. I think it's the same for the US?
>
> I'm not a tax expert by any means, but I don't think we can do
> that here.

I remember reading somewhere that if you give up your right to social
security and social benifits you can get exempted from income taxes. Or
something along those lines. I think it was on some financial advisory
colum from ABC news somewhere. But it's been rather a while since I read
it and I'm not sure of the context it was explained in nor of the criteria
under which it could be applied.

Sonja