Re: They gave their lives....

[Ronn Blankenship]

At 06:07 PM 6/17/01, you wrote:


>On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
>
> > > You have a responsibility to pay your taxes.
> >
> > 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?
>
>The only way I know of to avoid paying the social security taxes if you
>work in the US is to work for some entity that is somehow exempt.  IIRC,
>teachers in Texas pay into the state teachers retirement fund and not into
>Social Security, and that's the only organization I know of that has that
>exemption.
>
>I might be wrong on this, though.
>
>         Julia


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