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Cyka UchuuJin wrote:Someone please explain to me why everyone is whinging about this.
Cyka UchuuJin wrote:The tax in the USA is 10%.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:There's no national sales tax in the US. It depends on the state and some states are zero while others are more than 10%.
Cyka UchuuJin wrote:I stand corrected. I was basing that on a quick wikipedia check on N.America consumption/value added/sales tax.
What state has zero sales tax?
wuchan wrote:Another problem is extreme inefficiency in government. There are way more tax loop holes here than the states. Anyone that does not do their own taxes here is totally fucking retarded, since I have been here I have got back about 90% of my tax payments. AND my japanese sucks.
wuchan wrote:One of the biggest problems is the amount the J-gov spends on defense (while hiding it from the local population).
why does a country that has a "self defense" force make the top 15?
wuchan wrote:Another problem is extreme inefficiency in government. There are way more tax loop holes here than the states. Anyone that does not do their own taxes here is totally fucking retarded, since I have been here I have got back about 90% of my tax payments. AND my japanese sucks.
Dreamy_Peach wrote:8% is cheap. VAT is easy to enforce but you as a consumer can choose how much money you want to spend. I can easily cut back, and probably will a little bit when it first comes in. Going to Europe hurts - if I couldn't claim it back 20% takes the piss on products and I would hardly buy anything.
However, I'm glad they're doing this rather than enforcing greater compliance or introducing greater rigor in collection of other taxes. That would really hurt and there would not optionality about it. Some economists have been advocating that. Thank god they've been ignored.
canman wrote:Cyka, I'm with you. The sales tax in Canada is anywhere from 14-19%, but I don't hear people going crazy about it. Why a rise here is the end of the earth is something I've been hearing for a long time. I also read a lot of people's comments that they want to see cut backs before tax increases, but that will never happen, so you either raise the sales tax, or you become Greece!
canman wrote:It is not like people can just jump in their cars and drive south of the border for cheap goods, like Canadians do with the States. People are stuck here and will have to pay it. But it is for their own welfare, and pension system, I hope.
Russell wrote:Japan already has become like Greece. Actually worse...
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wuchan wrote:One of the biggest problems is the amount the J-gov spends on defense (while hiding it from the local population).
Cyka UchuuJin wrote:It's not cheap to buy all those fingerprint scanners and cameras to protect Japan from all those terrorists* trying to flood into Japan!
*[SIZE="2"]and by terrorists, of course they mean nigerian visa violators...[/SIZE]
Jack wrote:How so you shithead? Get your facts straight.
Japan has personal savings 3 times its GDP. It has a lifestyle a million times more affluent that Greeks.
What do you know?
Jack wrote:How so you shithead? Get your facts straight.
Japan has personal savings 3 times its GDP. It has a lifestyle a million times more affluent that Greeks.
What do you know?
Russell wrote:Because it has a large population with a large GDP. But as percentage of GDP, defense spending is only 1.0, which is very low.
Anyway, a certain amount of spending is necessary. This is the deal: Japan buys weapons from the US, and the US will protect it from attacks. That has worked up to now. I do not know how long that arrangement will continue, though.
Russell wrote:I stand corrected. My employer withholds tax automatically. How can I do my taxes myself, and what can I deduce?
Please, tell me, because I would like to become a little less retarded.
Jack wrote:I don't know how stupid people can get on this forum. Those scanners and cameras probably ate away 0.00000000876% of the government's budget for one year.
Jack wrote:I don't know how stupid people can get on this forum. Those scanners and cameras probably ate away 0.00000000876% of the government's budget for one year.
Cyka UchuuJin wrote:Someone please explain to me why everyone is whinging about this. The tax in the USA is 10%. EU member countries have a minimum 15% requirement. Denmark pays a fantastic 25% VAT (and that is in addition to the average 48% income tax!).
Japanese exports are going down thanks to the Chinese. The country is not exactly overflowing with natural resources. Tourism is not quite booming. Yet the country's debt keeps rising. Does anyone have a better solution for keeping the country from sinking further into debt?
Jack wrote:How so you shithead? Get your facts straight.
Japan has personal savings 3 times its GDP. It has a lifestyle a million times more affluent that Greeks.
What do you know?
rooboy wrote:Apart from the 'shithead' comment, I completely agree w/Jack. Greece is a fucking basketcase and has been for a long time according to Greeks I knew back at home. Why dya think there are so many Greeks who migrated elsewhere? The cuntrys been kinda fucked up for years.
Most of the Greeks in Greece are as good at saving as the fucking sponges back home in Oz who don't have to save apparently cause there's always more where it's come from - the salaries of people who actually do something. Or as good at saving as the average Yanks who apparently have saved the princely sum of 10,000 bucks for their 'retirement'. It's a fucking insult to compare the Japanese and other Asians w/irresponsible western cuntries' people when it comes to saving if you have the means to.
Greece also struggling w/'migrants' - ie self selecting ones without permission, big overflows in some areas with resultant problems of no money, no way to get it from the Greeks under austerity, and disease outbreaks. There's also a nasty HIV problem in Greece (yeah, I know Japan's is hidden) and the problem of junkies not being able to get clean needles now is gonna make a bigger problem. Since when do ya know of junkies so prevalent in Japan?
rooboy wrote:This is the fucking case put simply for the ostriches of Nippon. Ms Cyka laid it down for you minus any bullshit. I like this cuntry, enjoy its lifestyle but fuck me, the irrationality of the J people outdoes the irrationality of just bout everybody but the loser Koreans.
The Japanese want more tourists - so they have insulting gaijin checks at the airport after visitors have just been thru Immi. And of course they treat em and us residents like potential terrorists by the fingerprinting bullshit tho Japan has never had a terrorist attack from gaijin but had J fuckwits release sarin gas and exported terrorists who shot up some airport counter back in the 70s in a gaijin cuntry.
The Japanese watch their cuntryside towns close, their schools close, their fucking silvers keep growing, their taxpayer base fucking plummet like thru a trapdoor - so refuse to have any kind of immigration policy that's actually implemented.
The Japanese govt etc bitch and gripe about pension shortfalls - so they let all the J fuckwits who don't pay it, refuse to pay it including their arsehole politicians keep going on not paying. Then they fucking wonder why they've got a hole in the fucking system.
I don't wanta pay more tax but it's inevitable in a cuntry and system w/the Japanese's fucked 'logic'.
Russell wrote:Apart from being boring, you have become quite predictable.
Russell wrote:People have been banned from here for less.
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