On Thursday 24 April 2008 05:08, Dave Crozier wrote: Hi Dave!
So the guy on the link was only making £2.5K or less per year? And he didn't know about all the other taxes? That makes sense. I am very willing to let you have all the fatties, and they no doubt would shrink over there. Junk food here is cheap, that is how they pig out so much. On the other hand, some of the richies are fat as well. The sub-prime mortgage deal was beyond the average joe's understanding. He (she) was just trying to get a roof overhead where renting had become almost impossible. The people to blame are the money manipulators, not the working stiffs. > The 10% rate is up to a low fixed amount of total salary (£2.5K), after > that you pay the standard 20% rate up to the top threshold (£36K) > whereafter you pay another higher rate of 40%. > > What you have to realize though in the UK is that you also have an > additional 15% National Insurance tax on top of all this which is just a > stealth tax added but not shown in the standard rate. -- Regards, Pete http://www.pete-theisen.com/ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.