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OK, I have to rant.

I know that I'm privileged to live in a country that provides a level of social infrastructure that much of the world envies, but today is the last working day of the 3rd month after my corporate year end.

That means that I have to write cheques for GST (sales tax), federal corporation tax and provincial coropration tax.

I have just signed cheques totalling enough money to have bought a couple of the watches that I just put on my must have list. The relative government departments have just royally screwed me yet again and they didn't even buy me dinner.

I hate taxes!!!

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I write a cheque equivelent to a nice tourbillion each year......and ehat do I get to fund with it.....

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...self help groups for gay,black,hispanic,white,heterosexual,pro nuclear antinuclear, unemployed community rebuilding,london olympic funding,war funding nonsense

why can't my taxes be spent on keeping the streets clean, healthcare and stuff that matters.....ARE YOU LISTENING MR BROWN!!!!!!

ok, rant over also

mayby I should live abroad for a year and buy a gyrotourbillion with my taxes!

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John

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I'm with you.

Fancy going into business running a high end watch store in some nice tax haven??

I can run my business remotely, and there'll be no shortage of rich living executives for you to tend to.

I feel your pain fellows and share your dislike of taxes. We have the American Gestapo Service in the US and they call it the IRS- Ineternal Revenue Service. UGH......................!

I'd take US tax rates over Canadian in a heartbeat.

Tax freedom day here in Ontario is usually sometime in early July - yes, that means that more than half the income goes in taxes. The cheques I signed today are only the company part of it - I still get hammered personally if I take any money out of the company.

I'm sure you don't need me to wade in on this one... other than to say, that I TOTALLY, 100% AGREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Driver8

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I've got no issues with the paying of taxes per se, and I don't think that any of us would object to shelling out a wedge of hard-earned to keep Plod on the beat and the military in good shape.

What makes me want to cry/scream/hurl feces is seeing how many other worthless causes my beer vouchers are thrown at here in the UK. I want my council to collect the garbage and maintain the roads, not waste money on "Diversity coordinators", "Queer liaison officers", and "Climate consultants". Unlike what I've seen in other countries, UK taxpayers don't seem to care where their money is going. People will moan about how expensive things like housing, petrol, and groceries are here without making the connection that onerous taxes and burdensome red tape are driving up prices and the cost of living. For each new crisis reported in the tabloids, the inevitable howl from the masses is that the Government must "do something", regardless of the effectiveness of said something or how much it will cost.

NASA spent USD420 million to put a probe on Mars. The renovation of London's St. Pancras train station cost almost four times that - GBP800 million, or 1.6 billion american dollars.

For a train station.

Stop whining. I live in Sweden. I pay (almost) half of my income to the government.

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That would be a reduction for me.

As others have said, I don't mind paying taxes for services, but I'm not sure quite what I'm paying for. The Canadian military has seen very little significant investment for decades, our public transit infrastructure is a joke (I get 4 trains a day on a commuter lijne, Monday - Friday only and have to drive 50km to the nearest station) and I am currently on a 10 year waiting list for a GP. The Canada Pension Plan is lkittle more than a joke.

My property taxes are $4,000 a year - would be more but most of my land is exempt because it's conservation land. For that I get snow plowing in the winter by 9am (not much use if you have to leave for work before 6am), garbage collection of one bag a week and recycling collection once every two weeks. There is one 'large item collection' a year. I have an unmaintained gravel roadway, no sidewalks and no streetlights. I don't pay for municipal water or sewage because I don't have access to it.

At the same time my province is proudly announcing a green initiative that seems to involve little more than buying carbon credits from provinces that don't use them.

Sorry - this just really bugs me. Between my company, my wife and I we pay well into six figures of taxes every year, not including the 13% that gets tagged on everything we buy and I have no idea what I'm paying for.

I'll try to stick for watch comments for a while

Screw that. I'd leave.

I wont even bother telling you how much i pay in taxes....but suffice to say enough to really get me mad!!

But i do get a police patrol ever few hours near my area...but i pay a LOT for my council tax!!

M

I feel ya bro!

We don't have a tax freedom day.

We're too greedy here. Gotta have money to pay for war.

~Brian

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Now I have to join the whining....
up to 45% income tax, up to 30% Social security payment, 20% sales tax, extra fee for using highways, fuelprice of more than 1,25 Euro per liter, some of the most stupid politicians, that You can find on earth (uh, forgot about G.W.Bush...), a Unions system, that is close to comunism, You have to pay for the public TV station just for the existance of a TV in the house, even if You don't have the channel available, and many more rippoff actions.

But we have a good healthcare system, a public transport system and a rather low crime rate.

BG
Thomas

Well here it's 40% income tax, 17.5% VAT, fuel at around £1.20 per litre, we also have stupid politicians who seem very keen to alienate the population, and we have to pay for our public TV station too....., but WE ALSO have a healthcare system that's in intensive care, a feeble and filthy public transport system, a poor education system, an underfunded military, and quite a high crime rate in comparison to other allegedly civilised countries. We also can't move for speed cameras, and local councils seem to have difficulty in emptying our dustbins on a regular basis. Add to that we're probably the second most universally hated country on Earth! Great!

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