Flood Levy
Jan 29th 2011 | 5:39 pm
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Jan 29th 2011 | 9:08 pm
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Jan 29th 2011 | 9:14 pm
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Re: Flood Levy
From the Federal Govt/Abu Dhabi....
Dubai has negligible amounts of oil, it imports oil!
PS: The Govt of Dubai is pretty much bankrupt now. Huge borrowings with no hope of repaying their debts.
Dubai has negligible amounts of oil, it imports oil!
PS: The Govt of Dubai is pretty much bankrupt now. Huge borrowings with no hope of repaying their debts.
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Jan 29th 2011 | 11:36 pm
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Re: Flood Levy
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No, you're right $100kpa is not 'wealthy' or even 'rich', but for the majority of australians its comfortable (and even in Perth there are a lot of people that would kill relatives or close family to have that level of income)
Anybody in WA or anywhere else in OZ that earns 'above average' salaries should be very very very careful in what they say to others cos you might just find that somebody earning 80k will be very resentful of someone earning 100k saying they are 'poor'.
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Jan 30th 2011 | 2:48 am
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Re: Flood Levy
What is the average salary in WA?
Jan 30th 2011 | 2:54 am
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Re: Flood Levy
My point is that there's probably very little difference between earning 80k and 100k in terms of what you get after tax and Centrelink payments. There's also a whole section of rich/comfortable Australians who dodge paying their share. I never mentioned being poor, by the way.
What is the average salary in WA?
What is the average salary in WA?
As I said in my post above, according to payscale.com, its just above $87kpa
Jan 30th 2011 | 7:19 am
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Jan 30th 2011 | 8:30 am
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Re: Flood Levy
You mean similar to people who are on vast salaries, telling people to stop complaining about paying the levy?
Jan 30th 2011 | 10:14 am
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Re: Flood Levy
WOmderful how people refuse to think.
Collecting the money not a problem.Say you earn $60K,then you'll pay 0.5% on 10K,which is $50,as the lady said,less than $1 per week.
If you earn $100k then you will pay 0.5% on 50k which is $250,or as the lady said ,slightly under $5 per week..
Now if you earn $110K you will pay $250 plus 1% of 10k,can you work that uout all by youself,easy isn't it.
Gillard probably can work out the maths,it would seem you cannot.
Now to collect it,when you get your tax rebate could they possibly deduct $50 from that rebate and call it flood levy.Or if you owe tax could they possibly add $50 to your bill under the line called flood levy.Or would something so simple be far too complicated for the majority of people to see.Baffles me why the human race has great difficulty in seeing the bleedin' obvious
Could Henry Ford be right ' the hardest work a person can engage in is thinking,very few people will engage in that work'.
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Collecting the money not a problem.Say you earn $60K,then you'll pay 0.5% on 10K,which is $50,as the lady said,less than $1 per week.
If you earn $100k then you will pay 0.5% on 50k which is $250,or as the lady said ,slightly under $5 per week..
Now if you earn $110K you will pay $250 plus 1% of 10k,can you work that uout all by youself,easy isn't it.
Gillard probably can work out the maths,it would seem you cannot.
Now to collect it,when you get your tax rebate could they possibly deduct $50 from that rebate and call it flood levy.Or if you owe tax could they possibly add $50 to your bill under the line called flood levy.Or would something so simple be far too complicated for the majority of people to see.Baffles me why the human race has great difficulty in seeing the bleedin' obvious
Could Henry Ford be right ' the hardest work a person can engage in is thinking,very few people will engage in that work'.
Geordie downunder
As far as collecting it - not everyone gets a tax rebate - in fact a large majority do not and have to pay on top for medicare surcharge levy and additional earnings outside PAYG - I for one would not fancy finding extra money in one hit. Now it has been said that the application method will be as an additional payment on PAYG - thi is from the treasury site
http://www.treasury.gov.au/documents...d_Levy_Q&A.pdf
so looks like payroll systems will need to develop and test the solution which is as I thought it would be an additional cost and effort.
In my opinion the levy has been rushed out - smoke and mirror flowery speeches about what it covers and does not cover and downplaying press releases on actual cost. There are many other ways to implement this I was speaking from being a payroll developer. There really was no need to get so nasty and pious in your response.
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Jan 30th 2011 | 10:31 am
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