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  Re: Canadian Tax!
 
(...) I didn't do much more than poke at the Fraser calculator, but it's cool. Thanks for the link. 50% seems awfully high. I supose it depends partly on what you consider "modest", and whether or not you've mouths to feed. Modest varies a lot (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Canadian Tax!
 
(...) True, as a recent mobile graduate entering the computer software industry with long hair, and from looking at some of the 500 daily jobs in news://tor.jobs $50k CAD seems like a modest figure.. and it isn't too far off comparative wages in the (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Canadian Tax!
 
Richard, you need to be sure you're comparing apples with apples. If you scroll down in that Fraser Institute tax calc page you'll find this: (...) So you are not just looking at income tax here, and to truly compare with the UK you'll need to add (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Canadian Tax!
 
(...) D'oh! Thanks for clearing that up for me - I'm a bit inept at this whole finance stuff - it consists of the tautology: "I like coding, people foolishly pay me to code, then I buy LEGO" :) You're probably right about the UK being worse overall (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Canadian Tax!
 
Kevin Wilson wrote: [snip] (...) Are you allowed to say that in this group? This is an off-topic group, where Lego is on-topic! :-) /Eric McC/ (25 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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