Subject: Taxes

[Lindy]

TAXES

Accounts Receivable Tax

Building Permit Tax

Capital Gains Tax

CDL license Tax

Cigarette Tax

Corporate Income Tax

Court Fines

(indirect taxes)

Dog License Tax

Federal Income Tax

Federal Unemployment Tax

(FUTA)

Fishing License Tax

Food License Tax

Fuel permit tax

Gasoline Tax

(42 cents per gallon)

Hunting License Tax

Inheritance Tax Interest expense

(tax on the money)

Inventory tax IRS Interest Charges

(tax on top of tax)

IRS Penalties

(tax on top of tax)

Liquor Tax

Local Income Tax

Luxury Taxes

Marriage License Tax

Medicare Tax

Property Tax

Real Estate Tax

Septic Permit Tax

Service Charge Taxes

Social Security Tax

Road Usage Taxes

(Truckers)

Sales Taxes

Recreational Vehicle Tax

Road Toll Booth Taxes

School Tax

State Income Tax

State Unemployment Tax

(SUTA)

Telephone federal excise tax

Telephone federal universal service fee tax

Telephone federal, state and

local surcharge taxes

Telephone minimum usage surcharge tax

Telephone recurring and non-recurring charges tax

Telephone state and local tax

Telephone usage charge tax

Toll Bridge Taxes

Toll Tunnel Taxes

Traffic Fines

(indirect taxation)

Trailer Registration Tax

Utility Taxes

Vehicle License Registration Tax

Vehicle Sales Tax

Watercraft Registration Tax

Well Permit Tax

Workers Compensation Tax

Makes you kinda sick huh?

Any taxes left out?

[begood2]

Lindy,

Besides real estate taxes, we have special assessment taxes when new sidewalks or street paving is done. In the case of street paving ~ let's say that you live on a north/south running street and they pave a perpendicular east/west street, then the corner property is taxed at the highest rate and as you go down the north/south street each succeeding house is taxed less until you are past 1/3 of the block and the rest of the properties on the block pay no special assessment.

We also have a new (since 01/2005) street light assessment tax for each electric utility meter. The city owns the utilities, but they have separate budgets. The city use to pay for the street lighting, but to lower their budget ... they passed the bill on to the utilities and the utilities the passed it on to the customers.

Besides dog license, we also have a cat license and other pet license.

[StrawberryFields]

WOW Lindy that was depressing

[Lindy]

Originally posted by Strawberry Fields@Oct 30 2005, 11:41 AM

WOW Lindy that was depressing  

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Yea I know...have a friend who LOVES to send me depressing emails, this one was just too good not to share the misery with

[StrawberryFields]

Originally posted by Lindy+Oct 30 2005, 01:00 PM-->

<!--QuoteBegin-Strawberry Fields@Oct 30 2005, 11:41 AM

WOW Lindy that was depressing  

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Yea I know...have a friend who LOVES to send me depressing emails, this one was just too good not to share the misery with

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Thanks!

[begood2]

Lindy,

I just remembered another tax besides vehicle license and registration.

It is a wheel tax .... the money is suppose to be used to fix streets. A larger or heavier vehicle pays a bigger tax than a small vehicle because it's suppose to be more destructive to the roadway. As an example the wheel tax for a compact car would be $12.00, a pickup truck would be $20.00, and a bus would be $35.00.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a fresh or clean air tax next.

[Lindy]

Originally posted by begood2@Oct 31 2005, 05:49 AM

Lindy,

I wouldn't be surprised to see a fresh or clean air tax next.

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SSSSHHHHHHH

Someone in the government may be listening....no suggestions please! LOL

[StrawberryFields]

Originally posted by Lindy+Nov 1 2005, 12:57 AM-->

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Lindy,

I wouldn't be surprised to see a fresh or clean air tax next.

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SSSSHHHHHHH

Someone in the government may be listening....no suggestions please! LOL

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No Kidding!

[Fiannan]

Hey, don't complain too much (no wait, do complain and then vote for conservatives). In Sweden they tax you on a 9 dollar per gallon of gas 7 dollars! There are also comparable energy taxes for electricity. Yet if you DO go solar there is a special tax on developing an alternative source of energy! That's what you get when the socialists need the Green party to have a ruling coalition yet the Greens only have 4% of the legislators in the parliament.

[Guest Member_Deleted]

Originally posted by Fiannan@Nov 1 2005, 09:13 AM

Hey, don't complain too much (no wait, do complain and then vote for conservatives).  In Sweden they tax you on a 9 dollar per gallon of gas 7 dollars!  There are also comparable energy taxes for electricity.  Yet if you DO go solar there is a special tax on developing an alternative source of energy!  That's what you get when the socialists need the Green party to have a ruling coalition yet the Greens only have 4% of the legislators in the parliament.

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I just got my electric bill asking me to start paying an additional $1.95 per unit of power.... so that THEY could use an ecologically beneficial source of energy to provide me with energy...

But think on this... they won't be paying for that energy at all.... we willl... and then they will take all the profits from my investment.... and still be billing me down the road when it isn't costing them anything....

They are putting up those big wind mill things... and once they are up they are virtually maintainence free.... and cost free to run.... we know because a good friend of ours who used to live on the point of the mountain had one.... it cost him $10,000 to have it put up... but then it produced so much energy that he was making his entire living off of selling the excess energy back to UP&L...

Why don't they just start selling those units to us on a smaller scale...???? because they wouldn't be getting rich and controllling everything....??? because then we wouldn't need them anymore????

[gwell]

Taxes....

try living in Canada.......

[Outshined]

No thanks; I like it just fine here... B)

[Amy]

LOL... ya'll it is the government.. they rape you any way and any time they get the chance!!! and you will be paying all these taxes for the rest of your life!! so get used to it I guess!!... either that or go into politics and you can benefit from all the taxes the rest of the country pays!!! yeah Canada the property taxes!! HOLY!! makes me glad I still live with my mummy and daddy!!! ha ha...

[gwell]

Heard this morning some Agricultural group wants a Grocery tax to help support small farmers........Ugh!!!!!

[Traveler]

Today is payday where I work; I guess that is a good thing. Every once in a while I like to look at things and dream about stuff but sometimes I just try to figure out what is going on. So I am looking at my pay stub and I notice that my FICA is about half my federal income tax. I am middle class and LDS with most of the common deductions for contributions and interest on our home, yada yada, and 1 child still at home (in college and not a deduction) . But I’m thinking; my company matches my FICA so that means I pay out just about the same for FICA as for federal income taxes.

I do not know about the rest of you but this strikes me as really odd. Does the government really need as much money from me, average middle class tax payer, to run Social Security as it does to run everything else in the whole entire federal government? And still we need more for Social Security? Are we, the American middle class, really supposed to believe this?

A while back I got this nifty letter from the Social Security department. It outlined what I can expect for benefits at some future time. It suggested if I wait until age 70 to retire I will get more benefits. Cool. So I look up the expected death age for my birth year category and started figuring up stuff. Guess what – I won’t get back even half of what I paid in, and that does not account for my employer’s matching funds. So I have been paying for at least 3 extra me’s. In other words all by my self I could have supported the minimum of 3 others (same economic level) on SS even if they never earned a dime their whole entire live and still have enough for me when my time comes. SS should work for a ratio of 1 working for 3 never working their whole entire life when it comes time to live on SS. How the heck can SS be running out of money? As long as there is one person working we can have 3 persons on SS and still have plenty of money? Something is very wrong. Somebody is cheating!

During the Regan administration an international renowned economist (Dr. Freedman) was commissioned to audit Social Security and make recommendations. Two things came from his audit that really bothers me. First: that 60% of the SS funds were being used by the government to administer the program (did you know that by law private retirement fund cannot use over 7% - It is criminal to charge over 7% to administer pension or retirement funds – unless it is the government? And then they can charge almost 10 times the maximum allowed by anyone else!! BTW there are insurance companies that use less than 2 ½ %) The second thing was that SS was funding secret ops for the CIA!! WHAT? Money was being sucked out for black ops by the CIA and is just gone and because the amount was classified not even congress has access to how often this has happened. The CIA is under control of the executive branch of our government and therefore both political parties are at fault and thus reluctant to point finger at the other. So Social Security is going to run out of money?

Sorry to keep on but there are strong forces attempting to go one up on SS and provide this nation with guaranteed socialized medical for everybody. About 25 years ago our government discovered that if the middle class was allowed to deduct out of pocket medical payments above insurance (about 10% of actual $$ paid were deducted per federal tax not paid) that the government would be depleted of funds needed to run the government. Did you get that? The government cannot afford a tax break for the middle class of 10% of the money spent by the middle class for out of pocket medical. If this meager sum was deducted from Federal tax the government would be depleted of funds needed to run the rest of our government. So our congressional representatives made it almost impossible for middle class to spend enough on medical to get any kind of an income tax deduction for medical. But some political nit wits think there is enough money running around and not being used on anything else important, that can be used to pay for every man, woman and child’s medical expenses. Plus the 60% off the top charge to administer the program – assuming that it is at least as efficient as SS. Where are the funds going to come from? Excess SS?

The Traveler

[Guest Member_Deleted]

Plainly our government ######!

[Traveler]

Winston Churchill once said something like: Democracy is the worst form of government ever devised by mankind - that is excepting all the others.

The Traveler

[Traveler]

Just thought I would add one more idea. Not too long ago the state of Utah had a surplus in income taxes and ask for ideas of what ought to be done. I contacted sever individuals I knew in our state government and also sent a letter to the editor of both the Desert News and the Tribune suggesting that the state seriously consider eliminating one of the two temporary taxes passed over 20 years ago. Surely I suggested the state should ought to be able to end either the drought tax or the flood tax. But they didn't - proving that once even a temporary tax is in place it is in place forever.

The Traveler

[Guest Member_Deleted]

Originally posted by Traveler@Nov 3 2005, 06:13 PM

Just thought I would add one more idea.  Not too long ago the state of Utah had a surplus in income taxes and ask for ideas of what ought to be done.  I contacted sever individuals I knew in our state government and also sent a letter to the editor of both the Desert News and the Tribune suggesting that the state seriously consider eliminating one of the two temporary taxes passed over 20 years ago.  Surely I suggested the state should ought to be able to end either the drought tax or the flood tax.  But they didn't - proving that once even a temporary tax is in place it is in place forever.

The Traveler

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My husband worked for the state for a couple of years as a Director of Maintenence ... LOL.. when they were close to the end of the fiscal year they would tell him to go out and buy something expensive even if he didn't need it... just so any money in the coffers would look like they needed it in the budget for the next year...