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Just to be clear: with a marginal tax rate, if your income is $10,000,001, you pay $0.70 tax for the $1, and the rest of the $10,000,000 is taxed according to the lower tax brackets.
The first $50,000 of that $10 million is taxed just like the guy that only made $50,000.
The US tax system is slightly more complicated than this, but there’s no situation where you can get stuck with a huge additional bill because you edged slightly into the next higher tax bracket.
Some dude I met who was previously working in Germany told me he came to Australia because tax was too high in Germany. He told me confidently that it was 40-something percent, flat tax when you earn over a certain amount. I queried if that was the top tax bracket and he told me no. I was shocked at high the marginal tax rate was based on that.
Turns out, despite being a highly specialised metal machinist, he doesn’t know shit, and Germany has tax brackets like everywhere else…
People are astoundingly uninformed.
Can’t he just, you know, look at his pre and post tax income and do some fucking math?
I know some Estonians working in Finland refuse raises because that puts them in the next tax bracket.
But then those are mostly construction workers and the stereotypes for Estonians who go to Finland for construction work are… Eh, not flattering. Not saying there aren’t smart people, but it’s also a super common “career path” for people who drop out of school here in Estonia. Or used to be, anyway.
And we still hear people proudly saying they declined a raise that would put them in a higher tax bracket.
That’s because there are a lot of fucking idiots out there
To me, they’re lying to push a narrative. No one’s turning down a payrise because of that. Only stupid people who have never been offered that kind of money would ever make that kind of claim. So, I agree They’re idiots. Just in a slightly different way.
And a tax on loans based on assets
In the UK, once you take a loan against an unrealised gain, you just realised the gain. Otherwise, it would quite easily be used as a disguised remuneration package, specifically used to avoid tax. This is standard practice is countries who haven’t had their tax laws completely and utterly perverted by billionaires. Ours is “only” mostly.
That can’t be true, I’ve been assured by Republicans that it’s literally impossible to implement that.
