rapidaneurism

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by rapidaneurism 3y ago
True! For people with children there is also an effective tax due in the 50k to 60k band because the child benefit gets paid back, and the for the people with young children close to the 100k taxable income the loss of the 30 hour free chil
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by rapidaneurism 3y ago
Yes but an EV car is treated as a 2% benefit in kind. E.g. (simplifying) your employer can buy you a 40k Tesla and you get taxed as if they gave you 2% of that as salary. In the 40% braket that is £800 benefit in kind so you pay 320 extra
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by rapidaneurism 3y ago
I think that this is partly because in Europe taxation is progressive and it quickly becomes quite high. (In the UK £100k-£120k is effectively taxed at 60%+ more if you have young kids) So there is a point where giving someone 10k take home
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by rapidaneurism 3y ago
How much would you charge them?
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by rapidaneurism 3y ago
I would consider any opportunity that pays per hour as much as one makes per day, a highly paid one. Perhaps the higher pay reflects the horrible parts of the job.
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by rapidaneurism 3y ago
Of the top of my head: You choose what car to buy, but the bus company chooses what us to buy. You maintain your own car but the bus company maintains the bus. You drive your own car, but a professional hired and vetted by the bus company d
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by rapidaneurism 3y ago
Thing with sanity checks is that reality has a way of getting in the way. Like when the price of crude went negative. I was lucky enough to work on a trading system that had no check on the price, so it kept trading.