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by kspaans 10y ago
Heh, good point. No doubt having the user base is valuable. But if, hypothetically speaking, 100% of the profits are distributed to users what do the investors have to gain? The profits can't be paid to investors or used to buy back sh
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by kspaans 10y ago
And for the individuals who receive the interest, they have to pay regular income tax rates on that income. With dividends they get a different, lower rate.
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by kspaans 10y ago
Only half-kidding: they could pay a dividend to their content-creators rather than their investors. The company would be worth a lot less but the content-creators would be way happier (maybe).
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by kspaans 10y ago
I've had to fill in a W8BEN for my investment account in Canada (it would potentially allow me to buy US-located assets). And keep in mind that the vast majority of countries have tax treaties with the US such that you'll get tax
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by kspaans 10y ago
Canada does the same thing: residents are taxed on their worldwide income while they reside in Canada regardless of their citizenship.
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by kspaans 10y ago
To give you a small example: the deduction for moving expenses[0]. If you move for work (plus some other small conditions), you can deduct those expenses from your taxable income. This can't be claimed for you automatically, you have t
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by kspaans 10y ago
And yet the Canada Pension Plan is fully funded[0] and in no danger. California's problem is over-promising and mismanaging. 0 - http://www.osfi-bsif.gc.ca/Eng/oca-bac/as-ea/Pages/ascpp.asp...
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by kspaans 10y ago
The main difference between VAT and sales tax is that VAT is paid by each stage in the supply chain (every time someone "adds value"), and reclaimed by charging it to the next stage up in the chain. Sales tax is charged only once,
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by kspaans 10y ago
Green Chef | Software Engineer | Mountain View, CA | Full-time, ONSITE | https://jobs.lever.co/greenchef/47055562-e1cf-4274-8b1e-8e1f... Green Chef delivers organic meal kits to your door every week or on the schedule
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by kspaans 10y ago
Is it legal though? Both according to your lease and according to occupancy laws? (Referring to over-occupancy by renting out living rooms and/or multiple people per room.)
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Trump takes First step in NAFTA renegotiation: Sends draft letter to Congress(cbc.ca)
4 points by kspaans 10y ago|0 comments
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by kspaans 10y ago
A fair point, given that blog has been calling for a crash in Toronto since 2010. :D
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by kspaans 10y ago
Numbers I've seen suggest that the proportion of "foreign money" in Toronto is even lower than in Vancouver (mostly from GreaterFool.ca), so the tax may not have a large effect.
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by kspaans 10y ago
The renting out part seems like the goal of the rule, but I agree about the deficits part.
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Toronto Is in a Housing Bubble(greaterfool.ca)
121 points by kspaans 10y ago|120 comments
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by kspaans 10y ago
Yup, the employer-matched contributions are free money! You should absolutely take as much of those as you can. You'll always have access to the 401k account even if you leave the company. It doesn't matter a whole lot if your inv
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by kspaans 10y ago
When Uber offers promotional discounts to first-time riders, does that discount come out of the driver's pay? I was just trying to say that what the customer pays and what the driver earns aren't always directly linked. And you&#x
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by kspaans 10y ago
It's Uber who loses money on those rides, not the drivers. They are trying to get you to use them, instead of the competition. If their strategy works then they can eventually start charging more because they'll be the only ridesh
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by kspaans 10y ago
You can capture this by assessing the value of the land (regardless of what's build on top). Downtown detached houses are more valuable because the land they sit on is near other stuff, and people want to be near stuff. They are not va
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by kspaans 10y ago
I think that in CA the biggest factor you can point at is Prop 13. Current residential landowners are getting the benefits of rising values without the costs of higher taxes. NIMBY or otherwise, the incentives are pretty clear when framed t
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by kspaans 10y ago
Riding a bicycle, so an offline OSM bike route app.
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by kspaans 10y ago
Nepotism (friends from UWaterloo referred me), so unfortunately I can't help you directly. We are hiring though, so I'll send you an email.
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by kspaans 10y ago
I'm a Canadian working for a US company in the US, but I can say (having worked remotely in the past), that you'd very likely be paid as a consultant or contractor, so your taxes would work like you're self-employed. And my u
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by kspaans 10y ago
Generally speaking, the kernel community doesn't like to add external dependencies. And then including it in the kernel tree gives some advantages: architecture-specific speed hacks can be applied, kernel-specific utilities can be used
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by kspaans 10y ago
Working on a spouse visa right now for me spouse, so I've got a slight clarification. As the non-citizen spouse of a Canadian you can VISIT (possibly by applying for a visitor visa like a normal tourist) and probably get that visitor v
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by kspaans 10y ago
FWIW, in most (maybe all, I haven't checked) parts of Canada the labour laws are the same: https://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/es/tools/srt/coverage_g... Part of the reason you aren't entitled
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by kspaans 10y ago
The NYT has a pretty good online calculator for comparing renting vs buying. You just plug in a house price, mortgage details, and how long you're willing to stay in the house, and it will tell you what the better-deal level of rent is
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by kspaans 10y ago
And in a similar vein: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13314967
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by kspaans 10y ago
A logical follow-on from my post recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13298820
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Shell Game: Canadas Lax Disclosure Laws Open Door to Tax Fraud, Money Laundering(thetyee.ca)
1 points by kspaans 10y ago|1 comments

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