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   XPost: can.general, can.politics, ott.general   
   From: rebel@none.com   
      
   On 05/15/2010 10:41 AM, Snoogens Murphy wrote:   
   > On May 15, 9:29 am, Canuck57  wrote:   
   >> On 14/05/2010 6:59 PM, Wilhelm wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Anyone who bitches and complains about how much they pay in taxes just   
   >>> doesn't have a good enough accountant.   
   >>   
   >> What a crock of shit.  Taxes are rigged to give perceptions of fairness   
   >> but is a complex ruse to bilk people.  Take pension adjustments, a   
   >> classic.  Save for a pension, 18% then use actuarial bullshit to knock   
   >> it down to peanuts rendering RRSPs as a tool near useless. Your average   
   >> person isn't going to get much from RRRSP if all they do is put $600 or   
   >> $1000 in it each year.  You need to add a zero to that.   
   >>   
   >> And then the sales taxes like HST/GST, tell us how to avoid the tax rape?   
   >>   
   >> That is also why MP/MLA get the 1/3rd tax free, they know income tax is   
   >> a complex ruse to hide the real damage.  No where in the forms does it   
   >> add CPP/EI (employer+employee) to income tax for the total government   
   >> rake.  It is designed to hide the rape of earned income.   
   >>   
   >> I am sure many do cheat though.  Maybe Canadians should call 2010 a year   
   >> in which 3 million organized workers cheat all at once.  Now that would   
   >> be cool.   
   >>   
   >   
   > I'm going to buy what I need before July 1 and then go into miser mode   
   > for a few years.   Better the HST and gasoline tax than income tax or   
   > property tax, but I don't see the government lowering them to even   
   > things out.  And they could lower my income tax even more if big   
   > corporations paid their fair share.   
      
      
   I am doing the same.  I will probably drive to the US every few months.   
    A family of four down for 48 hours can bring a lot of stuff back.  No   
   WII fee's down there on computer stuff either.   
      
   I was curious as to how much the "lower" income tax McGuinty is   
   flaunting actually is.  Turns out, for someone that makes $75k, it is   
   about $58 a year(rounded up).   
      
      
   http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/ndvdls/fq/txrts-eng.html   
   http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/ndvdls/fq/2009_rt-eng.html   
      
   # 2009   
   6.05% on the first $36,848 		2,229.30   
   9.15% on the next $36,850		3,371.77	   
   11.16% on the amount over $73,698	  145.30	   
   Total  					5,746.37	   
      
   # 2010   
   5.05% on the first $37,106 	 	1,873.85	   
   9.15% on the next $37,108		3,395.38	   
   11.16% on the amount over $74,214	   87.72	   
   Total					5,688.79	   
      
   Difference 2009 -> 2010			   $57.58   
      
      
   About the cost of a tank of gas (HST not included).  They didn't   
   /really/ lower your tax. :)   
      
   	JR.   
      
      
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