Oops. the numbers I gave were for last year’s plan. The comapny did some legal wranglings and we now pay $8.83 for medical and $4.46 for dental.
The dental is only 75% on everything except preventative treatments, however.
$485 a month (it would be lower since I have no family) is a dent. That’s about 750-ish Canadian. $13 for your coverage JRR is pretty decent…although I’d probably stop the dental, I hate dentists and wouldn’t have gone if I wasn’t wasting my money for the coverage.
**C K Dexter Haven ** I know what you’re saying. If I was making enough to pay a million in taxes I wouldn’t mind (although I doubt I’d be paying that tax to the Canadian govenment…Japan here I come!). And of course I’d be able to hire better accountants to do my income taxes and keep as much money as possible.
I’m just bitching (ok, so the rant sucks, I’m new) about having to pay so much tax while making average or just below average pay. I figure if I had to live on my own (with no support from my family) I couldn’t. I must have a car to go to work (no public transit) and I’d have to live fairly close by. So while I might be able to pay for both the car and the home, I couldn’t afford the gas! Sheesh.
Too bad I can’t claim my gas…when I worked as a courier I didn’t pay any tax because of the gas taxes I paid. I made, untaxed, $1400 a pay check…I wish I bought a van :smack:
For Japan, you’re not still a dual citizen, IIRC, after you attain the age of 20 years. You have to make a choice, again IIRC, at that time to maintain Japanese citizenship.
At least that’s the state of the Citizenship Law as of February 1996.
Err…For Canada I’ve never been asked to choose. I even updated my passport and they didn’t blink when I showed them my Japanese passport (I can’t let that expire because it’s a absolute bitch to renew if I do). So now I have a shiny new canadian passport (because of my birth) and a rather old Japanese passport because my parents were smart enough to get me one (because you can’t “become” japanese anymore without a lot of work).
Again, the rant is from a Canadian perspective.
No, but they do seem to tax you more for anything over your usual income. I understand it’s the same for overtime, although I don’t know because I’ve never worked in that type of job. In my situation all taxes on my regular checks amount to just under 23%, but my bonus was taxed at over 40%.
That’s because your bonus bumped you into a higher tax bracket for this pay period. They withhold as though you were making that much every pay period. If this is just an annual bonus, you will get a lot of the extra back when you file for your tax refund, because the average pay period is much lower than this pay period. Of course, it still sucks because Uncle gets to use your money for a year.
bad: Canada’s not going to ask you to swear allegiance to Japan. What I related was the state of the Japanese citizenship law at the time I mentioned, not the Canadian citizenship law.
You want to pay no taxes, become a citizen of Bermuda or the Bahamas or Saudi Arabia. No taxes.
Of course, no government services either, but what the heck.
Or:
“If you want to pay less taxes, make less money.”
Yep! The tax burden is never quite as bad as the being-poor burden. 
48.5% of my last bonus was tax.
Then because my ‘salary’ was over the $70K mark, I was also stung an additional $1,900 ‘Superannuation Surcharge’.
Total, nearly 60% went in tax.
You lucky, lucky bastard!