Flood Levy
Jan 28th 2011, 10:43 pm
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Re: Flood Levy
The same as the rest of your tax. Most payroll depts charge you tax as if you are earning the same amount all year. If you don't earn that amount every month then you can claim back the extra tax money paid at the end of the year. Some payroll depts will let you reduce the amount of tax withheld to the correct amount of your annual salary if you ask.
Jan 28th 2011, 10:50 pm
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Re: Flood Levy
The Liberal / Conservative / Republican govts worldwide are pretty good at wasting money as well.
Its the nature of Govt and you're whistling dixie if you think thats going to change anytime soon. Learn to live with it and plan for it. Or get involved in Govt yourself and work to change it (good luck!!!!)
Otherwise you're just going to give yourself high blood pressure working yourself up about it.
As for the rest of your post, I'll just say I hope I never need any help or compassion when you're walking on by! 
Jan 28th 2011, 10:52 pm
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You mean the economists that are in the pockets of the US Federal Reserve and Goldman Sachs?
The handling of the GFC was touted as excellent and the suggestion was we would have lost far more money had we lost confidence and gone into recession.
Jan 28th 2011, 10:56 pm
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And we wouldn't want the tax office to be losing tax reveue would we?
Liechtenstein here I come...
I object to it and I didn't get the $900 stimulus. Irrespective, the $900 was really people's own money they had previously paid in tax. Call it a tax return.
Liechtenstein here I come...
Out of interest, how many of you objecting to an temporary 1% levy were very happy to accept $900 stimulus payments a couple of years back? or have worked on the construction of new school buildings when there was little other work to be had?
Jan 28th 2011, 11:06 pm
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I'm talking from some experience here, I worked on the NpfIT (or unfit as we called it), the huge white elephant of computerising the NHS, for about 3 weeks until I quit in disgust. I was on a decently paid contract but moved on because the suppliers management attitude was "do things as slowly as possible, we're on the clock", many years later its something like £10 Billion over budget and still delivered very little of use, this was obvious very early on.
Jan 28th 2011, 11:08 pm
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Jan 28th 2011, 11:21 pm
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I'm talking about the National programme for IT (NpfIT), also known as Connecting for Health one of the largest IT projects ever and a huge failure. I was ironically suggesting that the NBN is likely to enjoy similar success
Jan 28th 2011, 11:24 pm
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Err, yeah, thats kind of the point I was making...
I'm talking about the National programme for IT (NpfIT), also known as Connecting for Health one of the largest IT projects ever and a huge failure. I was ironically suggesting that the NBN is likely to enjoy similar success
I'm talking about the National programme for IT (NpfIT), also known as Connecting for Health one of the largest IT projects ever and a huge failure. I was ironically suggesting that the NBN is likely to enjoy similar success
Jan 28th 2011, 11:26 pm
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We agree on something, I did a few weeks contracting on it early in the project and asked to leave as I was appalled at the waste, my newly appointed boss asked me to stay for a while, shortly later he told me he agreed with me & we both left!
Jan 29th 2011, 1:24 am
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