20 Jan
Two round trip tickets: $4. Surcharges: $274. Living in Canada: priceless
Taking a trip to Ottawa to spend some time with the in-laws. One of the airlines had a dollar seat sale, meaning two round trip tickets were $4. Then how come it ended up being almost $280?
Total for 02 guest(s) Fare: 4.00
Nav/INS Surcharge: 148.00
Winnipeg AIF: 20.00
Toronto(Term 3) AIF: 32.00
Ottawa AIF: 30.00
GST/HST: 18.22
Security: 26.18
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Total: $278.40
If you aren’t horrified yet, see what our income tax is like!
Heh, your tax rates for my income is still less than I pay here in the states in almost all of the
Provinces!
And here they take out about $300/paycheck (twice a month) for health benefits! I don’t think that you have that up there since you have a national healthcare system, correct?
We’re movin’!
Take care,
January 20th, 2004 at 12:07 pm-Frank
That’s surprising! I still pay a bit extra (between $20 and $50 a month) for private health insurance to cover prescriptions and other stuff, but it’s nothing like $600! I also thought your rates were lower… My marginal rate is something like 40%.
Our healthcare is nothing to write home about. Long waits for specialists, beds in hallways, outdated technology are par for the course.
Sean
January 21st, 2004 at 7:56 amThat’s what my sister’s boyfriend said also (He’s Canadian). I always wondered how well it worked. The US is the only industralized country without national health care, so it just seems like we’re not doing something right down here!
I’m going to look at my stub right now…hang on…
ok, my total deductions and taxes are 35% of my pay (almost exactly). And that is strictly deductions and taxes, not a savings plan or anything like that.
For the two week period just ending, my health cost is $315, dental is another $32, and life insurance policies are another $10. Get this, my company pays *ANOTHER* $254 towards my helth insurance, and an additional $26 towards my dental!
It’s just disturbing when your federal taxes for a two week period are almost $1000, and you know it’s going towards a president who does things you completely disagree with – over and over again. My state representatives usually completely disagree with me when I write them, but sometimes they are OK. I love it when I get a letter going off on me responding to a letter I sent to my representative. Aren’t they supposed to be listening to the people who they represent?
Oh well. We talked about moving to Canada, but it’s just too cold for me. I used to live in New Jersey for 25 years and *that* was too cold for me! I was miserable… the weather is much better down here in the south. I can always go motorcycle riding to keep me sane!
Take care,
January 21st, 2004 at 9:38 am-Frank
Looking at my first pay stub of the year, I paid
34.5% to federal/provincial taxes
2.1% to unemployment insurance
4.95% to the Canada Pension Plan (which I’ll probably never see a dime of)
$12 to private healthcare (employer paid $80.50)
$29 to long term disability
All told, 42% of my paycheque was deductions. I stop paying into CPP and EI at around $40K of earned income, which softens the blow somewhat toward the latter part of the year.
Then, most of what I buy with the remaining 58% is taxed at 14% (7% federal, 7% provincial).
The only certaintly in life is death and taxes, eh?
Sean
January 21st, 2004 at 9:58 amIt looks like we’re pretty much in the same boat, mate!
Actually, it looks like you have more taken out than I do. We stop paying into social security after 90K of income, which (obviously) most people here never reach.
We’ve got local taxes here also, it’s 7% in this county, but varies by county here in GA.
well, back to work!
-Frank
January 21st, 2004 at 10:28 amYeah, I’ve complained about the flight thing too. You’d think Air Canada would be lobbying for less taxes, not more money, to increase airline usage.
I know that if taxes and surcharges were around 25$ instead of the current 75$ I’d fly a lot more. It’d save me 100$/trip/person.
Income taxes? Mine aren’t bad because I give to charity and have either been going to school or have been contracting for the last 3 years.
In fact, one year I only paid 1000$ in total taxes for the year… And got 500$ of that back in GST rebates
February 5th, 2004 at 9:23 pmCan someone email me and tell me what’s the Nav/INS Surcharge?
big_brn_eyes@hotmail.com
June 13th, 2004 at 11:47 am