Brazilians work 147 days in 2009 to pay taxes
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Brazilian definitely live to pay taxes. Once born, and wears his first disposable diaper is taxed at 54.75%. Years later, prepares for the first day of class. Bought notebook and pencil? Tax 34.99% on the value of the product. To err is more expensive: if you want a rubber slice into the government coffers is 43.19%. And so follows the citizen paying taxes throughout their lives. Until the last breath, when it is taxed at 35.93% on the purchase of a coffin.
And on Wednesday, May 27, is a special day for taxpayers: it is when they are completed 147 days of work in years. According to estimates by the Brazilian Institute of Tax Planning (BIPT), this is the time that the Brazilian should work in 2009 exclusively for the payment of taxes from federal, state and municipal levels. This index is almost double what was paid in the 1970s, when it took 76 days working to pay the total taxes.
With the tax burden that consumes 40.15% of the income of the employee, Brazil is one of the countries where we feel the weight of tax in the pocket of the worker. In Bahia, the Office of Fiscal Auditors, the tax burden is on a par with the national average. The majority - 22.54% - the tax is charged on taxes on consumption, embedded in the final price of products. Then come the taxes on income, as income tax, which have a share of 14.65%. The smaller portion is tax on the assets with 2.96% of the total.
Gratuitous - The big problem is that taxes are not always reverted to quality essential services, creating extra costs for the citizen. According to the Household Budget Survey of IBGE, Brazil's maturing between one and 40 minimum wages still spends 8.15% of income on public transport, 9.5% for health services and medicines and 6.8% on education . In other words, the taxes plus the payment of private services that should be guaranteed by the state, representing 64.6% of the Brazilian
Source: A Tarde Online
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