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Old Aug 11, 2008 | 12:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Christian and Beccy
The thing is, you earn your money, then get crippled for Income Tax, then you get crucified on the essentials (like energy/food etc), then with what is left you buy stuff and go out etc and get crippled again for Tax. I wonder how much of the money we earn actually goes out in tax?
Im sure that probably 80% of your wages end ups passing through the governments hand by the time you take into account VAT and the fact that any item you buy, will have part of the price as staff wages (taxed) fuel to deliver it (taxed) and profit for the company (taxed)
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