On 2017-01-05 13:32:51 Caligula69 said:
That concludes today`s lesson.
Todays lesson was wrong on so many levels I am struggling to work out where to start...
First of all, SA is not a "cuntry"... it's my fucking home, it's the place I will always consider home... If you think it's such a shit hole, by all means, don't let the door hit you on a the arse on the way out.
The British managed to make most of their fortune during the industrial revolution which was basically British, US and German driven. While they did profit from the Slave trade the biggest slavers where in fact the Yanks and the Sultanate of Oman. Before the industrial revolution they weren't actually that rich and used to have a much much higher level of poverty.
Every single formally employed person is in fact a registered tax payer, so where you sucked 300K from is a mystery.
Sales Tax (GST in particular) is a system that is actually older then salary taxation. They are actually a very fair way of ensuring everyone pays taxes in my opinion... The more luxuries you buy, the more you pay... nothing wrong with that.
SARS is actually one of the last bastions of efficiency in SA these days, If they had gone the same way as SAA we would have much more serious problems on our hands... I am grateful they work as well as they do, after all, there are a lot of us who actually get money back at the end of the financial year and as a small business owner that is never a bad thing.