You pay 30% of your check as Federal Income tax. You pay 10% in most States Income tax. You pay another 7% in Sales tax. You pay another 8% in Property tax.
For most Americans, 55% of your fucking check is taken from you before you even get home from work.
Catturd ™ I am almost 60 years old and a tax professional. There has never been a higher Federal income tax rate since I have been practicing. I started practicing tax preparation in 1988.
So much for Scotland and our tax system, which is, like everything else, better in Scotland than anywhere else in this disunity kingdom. More proof if needed that Scotland and our Scottish government do it better. It will be even better when independent thenational.scot/news/24274834.…
If you live in Newyork city, u pay federal income tax, states income tax, & they are the only city with city income tax. Then u pay massive taxes on anything you buy. Why are Americans not rioting over this? Florida has federal, but no state, & no city, & had a budget surplus.
Joe Biden vows to add a second death tax, Biden’s written plan calls for a small business tax hike, a corporate tax hike, a capital gains and dividends tax hike, income tax hikes, and energy tax hikes. Biden’s budget promises to increase the federal capital gains tax to 44.6%!
The tax code is far too complicated. We need to simplify it. The tax pro industry is 25% understaffed and the elected morons keep making the tax code more complicated.
The simplest way to fix the income tax code (Other than change to a consumption tax which will never happen)
If the United States were a serious country, it'd be:
• incentivizing births with 0% property tax after 4 kids • subsidizing single-family home construction • laying off 70% of government employees • allowing free-floating interest rates • slashing income tax to 0%
So you pay 40% income tax, then after ‘wealth survey’ half your wealth will be taken away and then when you die another 55% will be taken away. I hope the percentages are only of the residual value - otherwise we will all have to take a loan before dying.
BREAKING: Thousands more taxpayers moved to Scotland than left each year in the period after the Scottish Income Tax was brought in, new research has found.
The Scottish Government said it shows Scotland is 'an attractive place to live and work'.