British Expats - Random stuff - the anything else thread

When you break down taxes and other deductions from pay, its crazy sometimes how many hours it takes in a 2 week pay period to just pay these......

Of the 59 hours I worked, 17.25 hours of wages goes to taxes CPP, EI, parking, and extended health. Kind of crazy in a way.

Granted some of that will come back in March in the form of a refund for the taxes.

How else do you expect government services to be paid for?

scrubbedexpat091

Jul 18th 2018 6:08 am

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Originally Posted by Almost Canadian (Post 12535096)

How else do you expect government services to be paid for?

I never said a thing about not paying taxes, just found it interesting just how many hours of work it was.

Honestly its not that bad considering it would be almost as much in taxes in California and I would have to pay out of pocket at least a couple hundred extra a month on top for healthcare, at least here basic healthcare is included.

bats	Jul 18th 2018 10:58 am

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Originally Posted by Jsmth321 (Post 12535145)

oh come on, basic healthcare? Major surgery, cardiac, neurological, vascular..... Expensive imagine equipment, etc, etc,etc,. What's available is hardly basic.

scrubbedexpat091

Jul 18th 2018 12:23 pm

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Originally Posted by bats (Post 12535254)

oh come on, basic healthcare? Major surgery, cardiac, neurological, vascular..... Expensive imagine equipment, etc, etc,etc,. What's available is hardly basic.

I am using basic as to get full healthcare in Canada you still need to pay for various medical services, dental, vision, physiotherapy, possibly prescriptions, mental health counselling/psychologist visits and so on.

I got the term from the Canadian government...... (one example below) and in the past BC has used the term basic as well but the province seems to use medically required now instead.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration...care-card.html

bats	Jul 19th 2018 12:39 am

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Originally Posted by Jsmth321 (Post 12535281)

my apologies I see where you've got this from. Their interpretation of basic is rather different to mine, perhaps they mean fundamental? The Canada Health Act says that there should be reasonable access to "medically necessary hospital and physician services". Federal govt decides what that means and then each province can add other medical conditions.

scrubbedexpat091

Jul 19th 2018 1:22 am

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No worries. I am not really sure how to always word things.

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Originally Posted by bats (Post 12535522)

plasticcanuck

Jul 20th 2018 2:04 am

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Itâ€™s time to check your cellphone bills.You may be getting screwed more than you already thought.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/sup...ceed-1.1275665

BristolUK

Jul 20th 2018 6:34 am

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I have just changed my house insurance to new insurers and wonders never cease, they don't ask for a void cheque. :thumbup:

scrubbedexpat091

Jul 20th 2018 11:45 pm

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Several sick calls today. Someone at work threw a party for the cool kids and this morning several sick calls so today will be fun.......We already run a lean ship with minimum staff so sick calls really cause us to do a lot of work. Will be a long day.

BristolUK

Jul 21st 2018 12:37 am

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Originally Posted by Jsmth321 (Post 12536426)

Sounds like a good day for negotiating a bonus. :lol:

scrubbedexpat091

Jul 21st 2018 3:20 am

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Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12536440)

Sounds like a good day for negotiating a bonus. :lol:

If only. No bonuses here.

Technology was down as well so had to load old school.

scrubbedexpat091

Jul 21st 2018 4:41 am

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Next to a Q400 aft with running APU is 93 to 99 decibels. Little plane big noise. Ha ja

BristolUK

Jul 23rd 2018 7:15 am

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Time for another occasional puzzle as to why people pay so much unnecessarily.

It's those weekly/monthly "affordable" payment purchases.

The latest flyer to arrive shows an HP 17" laptop. $99.99 monthly (18) or $25.99 weekly (78). $1799.82 monthly, $2027.22 weekly.
Madness. But maybe, just maybe, you absolutely have no alternative like borrow one, library etc but if you can afford those amounts maybe an internet cafe will suffice? Anyway...

Even if I'll never understand that, you can actually pay cash. $1399.88. A saving of $600.

On the other hand, trot along to BestBuy, Staples etc where you can buy HP 17" with more RAM, a bigger hard drive and a better processor for $734.49 (normally $854.49)

scrubbedexpat091

Jul 23rd 2018 8:26 am

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Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12537399)

For folks who don't have good enough credit for traditional financing, lack cash to buy one outright and need one say for work or school, or lower income folks who don't have access to traditional financing. While I have not used such financing for computers, I can understand why some people may need to use them, same with payday loans which I have used in the past when there were no other options.

Costs more but sometimes one has no other options.

scrubbedexpat091

Jul 23rd 2018 8:54 am

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