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Dibbers

You have answered your own question. The tax system should have 0 bearing on whether one chooses to work more or less. The employment / work market and our own lives should dictate that. The tax system does that now. The Tax system has no bearing on how much you work. Various welfare incentives mig...

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Retired and worked all my life to pay for it and I’m still getting slugged to provide middle class welfare. Huge churn and the system is very heavily weighted to people who choose to have children. Sent from my iPhone using The Greenhouse mobile app powered by Tapatalk The system is heavily weighte...

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If a plumber works 7 days a week, he should have 3.5 times the wealth from that year as one who works 2 days. He may have a **** family life, relationships and everything else because he is so develoted to his craft. But the govt and some other policy hack shouldn’t be taking so much from him to mi...

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I note Roy Masters wrote this morning that the Broncos third party deals now exceed the entire rest of the NRLs combined. Shows what we are up against to sign the top tier talents. And despite this they still have not won a premiership since TPA’s were introduced. Maybe so, but that's more a reflec...

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I'm not going to pretend I know the answers believe a key component of the Henry Tax Review was to broaden the scope of the GST. At at high level it does make sense to tax spending rather than saving. Those that have more money generally spend more money and the more you spend the more tax you are ...

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I'm talking about reducing your taxable income by writing off losses from an investment. Then (for that financial year) you are paying less than your "fair share" to balance the books and be budget neutral as Papa bear is trying to do. And yes you pay tax on any profit you realise from th...

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But thats my point, you have more avenues to "minimalise" your tax. So if you went to a flat rate of tax, you'd be better placed to minimalise, and the lower brackets wont... so they'd be paying more than their "fair" share as a proportion of their income for that financial year...

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My mum has the top package (no idea why, told her to lower it or cancel cos she only watches 4 channels)... i have her login details... I just use that to watch it on my phone...

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I do have a mate thats all over this sort of thing... but it's way over my head... But as an aside, if you're trying to argue that the rich elite in this country (both individuals and corporations) don't avoid as much tax as humanly possible through any means they can (both legal and maybe not so l...

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We're not. I'm severely unmotivated to be at work today, have a distractingly wet and sticky crotch, and am lobbing grenades up at anyone who I think might respond to me. Well every day at work is unmotivating for me, so if you ever want to not argue but argue about something, I'm usually up for it...

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Hey, on the whole trust thing, I run trusts as the distributive entity for my holding companies, but I can't for the life of me see how they can seriously avoid tax. Delay payment, sure, but in an environment with fairly consistent earnings over a number of years, you're still having imputed costs ...

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I can help with that. My argument is that the current tax system is flawed and inequitable, and that as a country we should have a social contract in which all people contribute to the whole, within their means and no matter how modestly, because any system wherein 20% contribute 100% by definition...

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or are you proposing we do away with all welfare and everyone fends for themselves? I suppose that's one way to keep illegal immigration in check... people will want to head out rather than in... No, that would be deeply dumb. Look, we're doubling up here. You're both responding to my posts and the...

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Not really. The government would prefer that she stays on the couch, short term. The increase in outgoings to cover your childcare won't be covered by an increase in her tax. Thats a short term view though... balancing the books in the here and now. And thats also assuming that after 5 years "...

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With my Mod hat on - I am very, very sorry, but being a complete **** I inadvertently edited a post from Dibbers instead of quoting it. The new post was cut up to the point it had nothing to do with his original effort, so I deleted it rather than misrepresenting what he came here to say. Completel...

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People still do things even though there is a disincentive, they just do them less. Take drinking alcohol for example, it kills your brain cells, a large disincentive, people still do it. The cost of child care is determined by a market where give or take half of your child care fees are paid by th...

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The whole premise of our tax system disincentivising people from working is bollocks if you ask me. Think about it, no one would want a pay rise if that was the case. Our tax system (while not perfect) encourages people to aspire to earn more because although they may pay more in tax, they still ear...

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I disagree that my theory is based on a utopian world or just a uni student with a nice theory, it is my observation upon how people act when given a government incentive. Ask yourself, does how much money you or your wife gets net of tax and childcare payments /subsidies influence your decision on...

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Ok, I am not sure if you are making this point out of spite because of how our house conversation went down. But to me, it is a weak argument. If they are taxed at the same rate it is equal, 60k is 30% of that persons income just as 18k is 30% of the other persons income. To be honest the only way ...

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FTR I am not suggesting to tax the poor and not tax the wealthy. I am suggesting we treat everyone equally. Tax 0 - 1,000,000 (to infinity) all at 30% or what ever works budget wise. With Child Care - either provide it so everyone has the same universal benefits, or remove benefits all together do ...

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FTR I am not suggesting to tax the poor and not tax the wealthy. I am suggesting we treat everyone equally. Tax 0 - 1,000,000 (to infinity) all at 30% or what ever works budget wise. With Child Care - either provide it so everyone has the same universal benefits, or remove benefits all together do ...

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Is it plugged in?

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zim wrote: ↑February 6, 2018, 1:40 pm
Dibbers wrote: ↑February 6, 2018, 1:26 pm Can someone PM me the rumor? All this innuendo and edits are driving me nuts
Seconded.

If someone in the know shares the information i'll pass it on... it'll be something along the lines of "Sticky said the players will crack at any minute... purple monkey dishwaser"

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Can someone PM me the rumor? All this innuendo and edits are driving me nuts

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Since starting to watch my diet (and adding next to no additional exercise), I've gone from 112.7kgs to 104kgs since early December. almost 10kgs just from tweaking my diet! Basically no more soft drinks, no more snacking on chips and chocolate and tuna salads for lunch at work most days. Saturday i...

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Just to clarify the old system you got 50% regardless of what you were on. Plus the Child care benefit which I have never been eligible for so I can not comment. Now if you are below 65K combined you get 85% back, and over 350,000 you get 0% back. With $250,000 being the 50% cap. Keep in mind they ...

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tis pleasing to the eye... will take a while to get used to it but its a much nicer look and feel.

Can we add a feature to "Like" posts? lol

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79 missed tackles last yr Maloney missed 121. Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk You're point being? That you may be incorrect in your opinion that Sezer as a good defender is a myth Sent from my SM-G950F using The Greenhouse mobile app powered by Tapatalk I think the argument for Sezer being a g...

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Malcolms childcare rebate changes are pretty disgusting.... The changes to the childcare rebate benefit my wife and I. We have to pay full fee for a couple of months because we hit the cap (son goes 3 days a week), and those are tough months... Childcare is ridiculously expensive. While i'm not say...

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I was on the NRL Supercoach not the DT... Dibbers Dropkicks will be kicking about till i forget to check my team for 3 months...

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and i can't find the league...

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I was trying to build a team... clearly i don't have access to sufficient TPAs to be competitive... I can only fit in 3 decent players and the rest are minimum wage no names...

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The mobile app is used well less than the regular site. I suspect this is because a lot of site traffic is referred from Facebook... and to a lesser extent, Twitter. I suspect its because a lot of people are like me... and have it open at work most if not all day... beats working... well mostly... ...

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And grab some Tim Tams.... Scotch Fingers for me please my wife is a coeliac, she doesn't miss too many foods but she misses scotch finger biscuits Sent from my SM-G950F using The Greenhouse mobile app powered by Tapatalk Nothing beats a hot cuppa in winter with some scotch fingers for dunking... t...

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