It’s always talked about in the media as if everyone cares, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard a normal person complain.

  • ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de
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    12 days ago

    If you are under the minimum income for your location, you don’t pay taxes.

    Then what if you start earning more, suddenly have to pay taxes and end up getting the same or even less than before?

    • Gieselbrecht@feddit.org
      1·
      12 days ago

      That is not how taxes work. If you earn the minumum income or less, you pay no taxes. If you are above the minimum, you pay taxes on the amount that surpasses the minimum only, so there is no way of getting less if you earn more.

      • deathbird@mander.xyz
        1·
        12 days ago

        I am perpetually shocked at how many people don’t understand marginal tax rates, and I truly think ignorance of them is used to confuse people about how wages work.