Taxpayers in Singapore

[lifeafter41]

Came across an interesting article on the definition. For a start, is the PM a taxpayer, what about the MPs, mayors, town councils, the SAF BGs, captains? Etc.

How about the doctors, policeman, fireman, or the engineers working in a semi conductor industry.
And insurance sales guy or even the property agent.

About Taxpayers:


Let's get something straight. A taxpayer is some person who has his earnings deducted by the government so as those monies can be used to be paid for running the government and its services. This means ONLY people who are not supported by government stipends are taxpayers.

Anybody that is living off a government stipend of any shape way or form, like, academics in public universities, teachers in public schools, medical staff in public hosiptals, people on public supported pensions, government burocrates, and all people who work for the government and in companies that are wholely or partially owned by the government, you are NOT TAXPAYERS. Just because a government worker has some money deducted from his government wage, stipend, or pension, and it is called a tax, is not really a tax. This is because, those people who are in the private sector, are paying for your stipend, it is they who are taxed, and pay the tax a government work pays. Thus people in the private sector pay their taxes and the taxes of all those who work in government or public companies.

 

[iconchia]

Bro, try to take your medicine regularly. It will get better soon. Take care.

 

[LeMans2011]

Poor chap. Is life that bad after 41 ??

 

[AhGirl]

actually, what is he trying to say huh? me liak bo balla le...

 

[Fook Seng]

Poor chap. Is life that bad after 41 ??

Don't worry it is just after 41 that it is like that because 41 is the age when you suddenly seem very enlightened but give it another one to two years, wisdom will set in. Then you begin to think that you are not so smart after all.

 

[songsongpunggol]

Taxpayers who received tax rebates or financial benefits from the garmen are not considered as taxpayers?

What kind of idiotic reasoning is this?

 

[laksaboy]

You earn a wage, you pay the income tax. Doesn't matter if you work in the public or private sector.

 

[lifeafter41]

Poor chap. Is life that bad after 41 ??

Frankly, it depends whether if you are jobless or not.

 

[SingaporeNINJA]

Perhaps this is much ado about nothing. There're many ways to skin a cat and when one is in power, it does not matter if one pays tax or not. It really does not matter. So what if you pay all the taxes like the rest, but then you make the rules too. Geddit?

 

[Froggy]

. . . . . . . . A taxpayer is some person who has his earnings deducted by the government so as those monies can be used to be paid for running the government and its services. This means ONLY people who are not supported by government stipends are taxpayers. . . . . . . . . Anybody that is living off a government stipend of any shape way or form, like, academics in public universities, teachers in public schools, medical staff in public hosiptals, people on public supported pensions, government burocrates, and all people who work for the government and in companies that are wholely or partially owned by the government, you are NOT TAXPAYERS. . . . . . . .

What do you call a person who has 20% of his money forcibly deducted for the government to gamble in the form of "long term investments" ?

 

[Leongsam]

This means ONLY people who are not supported by government stipends are taxpayers.

Everyone is supported by taxes in one way or another.

 

[looneytan]

you buy toothpaste you are taxpayer

 

[tanwahtiu]

there is only ONE tax office in each government in a country. If you see 2 tax offices in one countrty, let us know and we migrate there. Why? competition mah! see who give out the best tax benefits.

If any government gives out tax benefits/ incentives/ relief it means they have run out of idea to get more money for a big/ huge problem they created, like housing for example.

Taxpayers who received tax rebates or financial benefits from the garmen are not considered as taxpayers?

What kind of idiotic reasoning is this?

 

[tanwahtiu]

every time you see a baby say welcome to this new tax payer.

Everyone is supported by taxes in one way or another.

 

[Fook Seng]

What do you call a person who has 20% of his money forcibly deducted for the government to gamble in the form of "long term investments" ?

CPF account holder?

 

[Fook Seng]

every time you see a baby say welcome to this new tax payer.

I think you should only give Certificate of Entitlement to be a taxpayer to the baby. A lot depends on whether his parents will allow him to do his NS if he is a guy or stay and take up citizenship if she is a girl.

 

[Froggy]

CPF account holder?

Good morning, yes I think that's it

 

[lifeafter41]

Everyone is supported by taxes in one way or another.

The rationale is paying taxes. Not supporting by taxes.
Nevertheless, what is the percentage of private sector (manufacturing, services, retail, banking) paying into taxes, individual and corporate, contribution as per below statement.


The private sector is anemic in France. Based on the 2013 budget, the central government will contribute 56.3% to the economy. The remaining 43.7% is spread over local and regional governments and finally the private sector—that is shriveling with the relentless de-industrialization of France.

 

[jw5]

What do you call a person who has 20% of his money forcibly deducted for the government to gamble in the form of "long term investments" ?

CPF account holder?

1. Sinkie.
2. Hence Central Provident Fund should be renamed Sinkieng Fund.

 

[Enforcer]

Don't worry it is just after 41 that it is like that because 41 is the age when you suddenly seem very enlightened but give it another one to two years, wisdom will set in. Then you begin to think that you are not so smart after all.

Brother, it's call midlife crisis. Every suffers from it. Most recovered. The few who don't, you see them in SBF everyday :p