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Medicare levy is collected through your PAYG tax
Medicare Levy Surcharge is extra taxation payable at Year End reconciliation depending on your private health care arrangements
So saying you are paying it through Medicare Levy is the same as paying through the payroll - which means a system change and large cost to providers.
The arrangements are a complete cock up and one that I cannot see being repealed after 1 year it will become a standard tax for the government I believe.
Medicare Levy Surcharge is extra taxation payable at Year End reconciliation depending on your private health care arrangements
So saying you are paying it through Medicare Levy is the same as paying through the payroll - which means a system change and large cost to providers.
The arrangements are a complete cock up and one that I cannot see being repealed after 1 year it will become a standard tax for the government I believe.
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Does anyone know the timing of theses cuts? I'm getting solar panals installed in 3 weeks time and wondered if anyone knew when theses cuts would start.
It a small family run solar company that I'm using and they have sunk their savings into setting up their company. It looks like they, like many others, are being sold out by labour again.
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It a small family run solar company that I'm using and they have sunk their savings into setting up their company. It looks like they, like many others, are being sold out by labour again.
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They gave us free bus travel for a week, while there were only limited buses cos of the floods. When they started charging again they promptly put the fares up ![Roll Eyes](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif)
Telstra in Brisbane today told me I can't buy a top-up voucher for the internet cos of the flood
and no less than 25 chemists have informed me there are no antihistamines left in the city....because of the flooding. I suggested to the last one that maybe they should try a different supplier, she told me that means getting the tablets from OUTSIDE QUEENSLAND
:curse: I told her I wouldn't care if they came from Antarctica as long as I could get something to stop me sneezing, but she didn't get the point
Th same pharmacy wouldn't sell me Nurofen either but this tine it wasn't cos of the flood but because I don't drive! Two passports not sufficient ID, it had to be a driving licence cos the only box on the form said driving licence number.....WTF!
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Telstra in Brisbane today told me I can't buy a top-up voucher for the internet cos of the flood
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Oh and Coles has run out of tomatoes and milk again.......due to the flood, good thing I won;t have any spare cash, there's nothing to spend it on
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Actually as a Labor Voter I am only complaining on the basis of the application of the tax. I just hope they have done their due diligence and are prepared to understand the "real cost" of adding another layer to the taxation in this country.
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Obviously I'm a well known pinko and non-Abbott fan etc.
But I'll say this, I always had reservations about the stimulus program and if it hadn't been decided to lob cash at anyone that moved & spruik the housing market, perhaps this levy wouldn't be necessary!
But I'll say this, I always had reservations about the stimulus program and if it hadn't been decided to lob cash at anyone that moved & spruik the housing market, perhaps this levy wouldn't be necessary!
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When does Labor ever conduct due diligence?
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You started off the thread all very rational with a fairly decent argument. I suspect this was a ploy so that you were not seen to be just starting the thread to have yet another whinge. But as soon as you got validation from two other posters your response was:
It's exactly what we have come to expect of you Dean... very predictable!
It's exactly what we have come to expect of you Dean... very predictable!
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Next year our premiums will rise (again) due to floods, despite them probably not even paying out to most of the bloody insured
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