But virtually all Americans pay some form of tax, whether it's sales, payroll, state income, or property tax.
Nonetheless he admits he cannot tackle big problems, like a bloated state payroll and woeful schools.
It had seemed that hiring by businesses might make up for the shrinking state payroll: more than three private-sector jobs were created for every public-sector post lost until March.
Part of the reason for this mood is that private-sector workers, who account for the majority of the electorate, have come to regard those on the state payroll as pampered.
But Ms. Vick failed to foresee that the system would automatically report the fake employees to a state payroll-tax agency as if they were new hires at an actual company.
He said he and his son calculated how much they pay in taxes -- federal income tax, federal payroll tax, state income tax, state sales tax, state property tax, gasoline tax.
Mr Franco has opposed this measure, even though 38% of his state's payroll costs go to pensioners.
Those people still pay payroll taxes, sales taxes, state income taxes, excise taxes and more.
Statutory rates are calculated by adding up the tax rates payable at the federal and state level, including payroll taxes.
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The Old Line State enacted a law--over its governor's veto--that forces any employer in the state with more than 10, 000 employees to either spend at least 8% of its payroll on health care benefits or pay the difference to the state.
The welfare state is largely financed by payroll taxes, half of which are paid by employers and half by individual workers.
While this is the case at the federal level, all Australian state and territory governments levy payroll taxes on larger employers.
Taking into consideration this concept of nexus, factors that figure into whether (and how much) to tax inside a state would include property, payroll, and sales.
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Meanwhile, he moves slowly, and with minimal fanfare, to privatise state assets, to squeeze the public payroll, to curb the trade unions and generally to administer the sort of liberal medicine South Africa needs.
Indeed, if you were someone who earned at the top of the progressive tax rates on a federal and state level and then threw in the payroll taxes, and absolutely refused to take any of the myriad deductions and tax credits available to you, you might actually pay this amount.
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Today, the nine states that do not tax personal income have shown undeniable gains in population growth, gross state product expansion, and non-farm payroll employment performance.
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Just as the federal government requires employers to collect income and payroll taxes by withholding them from workers' paychecks, state and local governments require retailers to collect sales taxes by adding them to the customer's bill.
Offering employees a choice of placing their payroll taxes in their own retirement account reduces dependence on the state.
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An April survey of 1, 500 business owners by the National Small Business Association, a Washington-based trade group, found that roughly 40% of small firms use outside payroll services for tasks ranging from issuing employee paychecks to paying state and federal employee taxes.
That, according to a suit filed by the California State Compensation Insurance Fund, was the intention behind Ideal Payroll Plus and Ideal Management, two Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.
In a study for the state legislature, William Hsiao of Harvard University recommended a payroll tax on companies and employees, rather than paying for it out of general taxation.
That adds up to 57.9%, but state income taxes and 1.45% of the payroll tax are deductible from federal income tax, so that reduces their net cost by 5.8% (39.6% of 14.75%).
Across the river in New York City, the mayor, Michael Bloomberg, is threatening to cut 4, 675 teachers from his payroll unless their unions show some flexibility and he gets more cash from the state politicians in Albany.
We pay state taxes, federal taxes, property taxes, sales and use taxes, payroll taxes, workers compensation taxes and unemployment taxes.
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He repeated those very same areas in terms of small business -- assistance to small business in his State of the Union address, and again last week when he signed the payroll tax cut extension.
Remember though that the payroll taxes only actually cover one third of the cost (other funding sources such as premium payments, state transfers, general tax revenue, and borrowing cover the rest).
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