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Comic title: Life in 2030”

This shows guy facing futuristic yet bleak smart home with many IoT devices and AI etc. Smart toilet is updating so he cant use it. Robot wife low battery so cant sleep with her. Fridge locked behind ads and ask to upgrade to premium version. Park is now data center so no walk for him. Smart bed subscription expired so he falls on floor. Air is taxed so he cant breath and vents say pay now to getair. Man looks stressed and sweaty in every panel.

  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
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    Here in the UK “normal workers” dont even do that. Your employer does it all for you and you just get told about it in your payslip.

    [Here’s how much you earned.]

    ~[Here’s a bit of tax.] [Here’s a bit of other tax] [Here’s a bit of national insurance] [Here’s a bit of pension contributions] [Here’s some other numbers that I cant even remember because I never bother looking] [boring stuff really] [you should probably look at this but who gives a shit its boring]~

    [Heres what youre actually getting!]

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      Oh yeah, your employer pays your tax here in Sweden, I am just talking about the yearly income report you have to submit.

      You only have to make any changes if you have earned money not automatically reported to the government.

      I sold some stock a few years back, and had to report it and pay tax on it.

      I ran the simple calculation, reported everything, and transfered the money to my tax account, total time was 45 min.

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        In Spain your employer pays, and you also pay some at the end of year. And for more complicated cases Spain publishes short instructions on how to pay taxes as an individual, just about 900 pages

        I heard, Spain tax system is considered the most complicated in the world because of all the legacy stuff

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          I have even reported a slightly higher tax rate to my employer, this means that I slightly overpay my taxes through the year, and when it is time to report your taxes, you will always get a tax return.

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            I had that happen inadvertently- my employer forgot to claim the tax free threshold. I just said fuckit and we’ll fix it next financial year

            $18,000 on my tax return was glorious