Re: [lace-chat] Re: Tax Freedom Day

2005-03-23 Thread Jenny Barron
And then there are the extra taxes on gasoline and telecommunications services I don't think we're quite to 41%, but it's sure more than we'd like! just out of interest how much tax do you pay on petrol/gasoline? I'm not sure of the exact figure after our recent budget but last year

[lace-chat] re: tax freedom Day

2005-03-23 Thread Bev Walker
Hi everyone thank you for the link Margot http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/shared/taxcalc.asp I was appalled to find that it will take us until June 24 to be working for ourselves. If I lived in the next province, Alberta, I would be done with, as of May 24. My rate is a modest 47% (eeek!)

[lace-chat] re: tax freedom Day

2005-03-23 Thread Bev Walker
oops, oops, oops Can I write my message again? I wrote: If I lived in the US, it is 31 May this year. where I should have said UK, if I read the site correctly. Someone already pointed out TFD for the UK, and I was thinking to look up the one for the US, apparently predicted for April 14, which

Re: [lace-chat] re: tax freedom Day

2005-03-23 Thread Dmt11home
Alberta sounds like a bargain. Devon To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace-chat] Re: Tax Freedom Day

2005-03-22 Thread Martha Krieg
41%... I suppose it depends on how you calculate it. If you fall in a 28% federal bracket, and then 4.something for state, you're already up to about 32%, and then if you add on a six percent sales tax on maybe half of what you spend, that's probably about 35%and more if you have city or

[lace-chat] Re: Tax Freedom Day

2005-03-22 Thread Tamara P Duvall
On Mar 22, 2005, at 21:33, Martha Krieg wrote: then if you add on a six percent sales tax on maybe half of what you spend, that's probably about 35% Sales tax varies from state to state. Ours (in VA) used to be straight 4.5% on everything but prescription drugs (plus 2%? 2.5%? local tax in

[lace-chat] Re: Tax Freedom Day

2005-03-22 Thread John OConnor
The taxes are *there*, just calculated differently; hidden I consider this in the tax category altho perhaps I have been lucky so far. Received notices from credit card company and the banks that they are now charging a 'fee' of 3% of total amount of any foreign currency charge or withdrawal at