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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-19-08 03:26 PM
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16. If you mean like ours in the UK
then allow for the fact that 11% of your own earnings would be deducted at source and you employer pay 12.8% on top of that. Broadly speaking that's the way it works - just another tax.
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