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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Taxed out of Existence

The middle class is fast disappearing under the onus of calamities, the poor economy (no matter what they say in the papers), the lack of jobs, and poor health conditions, and taxes.

Take a single person who earns 50,000/month. Since employees are taxed based on gross income,  his 50,000 is immediately reduced to only 34,000, based on a 32% tax rate.  take this simplistic example of a single person who had a kidney transplant.  i can have a family as an example but i chose to make a simple one.  i am a kidney transplant so i took this example.  kidney transplant individuals normally have an underlying cause - which is either diabetes or hypertension.  this is not live data.

this does not even take into account the real estate tax if the individual decided to invest in a house.  the housing entry.

the person in this example practices extreme frugality.  the 9K leftover income is not real.  it does not even take into account a person's recreational activities.  this person goes to work and goes home everyday, day-in-day-out.  this person does not even buy a book, any book, which to me is almost impossible.

bottom line:  consider the difference between a person who is not ill at all vs. this person.  therefore, gross income taxation is an injustice.





Gross Pay

$50,000.00
tax 32.5 $16,250.00



$33,750.00
philhealth
$375.00



$33,375.00
sss 3.4666666667 $173.33



$33,201.67




transportation 30/day $660.00
food 75/day $2,250.00
water
$100.00
current
$2,000.00
cellphone 250/month $250.00
housing
$6,000.00


$11,260.00 $27,201.67




if he is a kidney transplant


prograf at Mercury 237 $7,110.00
tagray (made in India) 189 $5,670.00 $21,531.67
it twice a day
$5,670.00 $15,861.67




laboratory tests
$1,000.00 $14,861.67
doctor's fees
$500.00 $14,361.67




diabetes/hypertension
$5,000.00 $9,361.67





NET
$9,361.67

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