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Should the government raise taxes on the rich?

The top income tax bracket in Australia includes all incomes over $181,000 and is taxed between 30.3% and 45%. Individuals making $180,000 are taxed $65,000 plus $.45 for each $1 earned over $180,000. An individual making more than $500,000 would pay a tax rate of 59% in Australia, 57% in the UK, 60% in the US and 73% in Brazil.

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No
61%
Yes
24%
No
7%
Lower the income tax rate and remove all existing tax loopholes for large corporations
4%
No, but lower taxes for the poor
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Yes, and raise taxes on all income brackets
2%
No, keep the current tax structure
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Reform to a flat tax

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 @4VPG4NVfrom Victoria  answered…4yrs4Y

How do you determine rich? Its not about salary really is it. The filthy rich do not receive standard pay and wages as normal workers do. It's these people that must be taxed and that includes all they receive and spend as corporate expenses . The normal worker gets taxed on perks and allowances. The filthy rich get away without any issue on their perks and out of pockets!

 @4SZP3NVfrom Victoria  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, but also take into consideration the number of children supported in the household

 @9K8PHGNanswered…1yr1Y

Taxes should vary based on income/tax bracket. The rich will naturally be paying more than those in lower tax brackets. The rich should not receive additional tax increases.

 @B4GNKHGanswered…1wk1W

No, they shouldn’t have to support the government’s poor decision making when it comes to financial decisions. They worked hard to make they’re money

 @B4DYN43answered…2wks2W

Remove stamp duty as agreed when gst was brought in, states ripping us off because they are useless at budgeting

 @B4BRLJKanswered…2wks2W

Yes, raise taxes on the super rich, but tax wealth not work. Close loopholes for tax avoidance. It should be illegal to be a billionaire.

 @B4B89XJanswered…2wks2W

We should be charging every business no matter how big or small the same rate so we are small on the same playing field and the corporations should be fined for avoiding paying tax Its disgraceful that the Gas companies are foreign owned, not paying tax then raping and pillaging the people of Australia

 @B49Q8B3answered…2wks2W

Lower income tax for individuals and raise tax for businesses, especially large corporations. It seems far to easy for people to set up a business and exploit tax loopholes and this is unfair for the everyday tax payer.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…8mos8MO

War crime tourists pay $3,000 to see Ukraine’s horror

War Tours, pays a wage to its tour guides – who are refugees themselves – and regularly donates funds to the war effort. But some of his competitors appear to be raking in the cash: one week-long “war tour” package reportedly offered to tourists comes with a £3,000 price tag. Clients are from the US, Britain or “small European countries”, he says, and interest in tours has risen this summer. “I think they deserve to see what’s happening here because their governments support Ukraine, and they pay for that with their taxes,” he says, adding “people have a right to know how their money is spent.” It would seem that the Ukrainian government is also keen to attract visitors. In March, the country announced a campaign to attract tourists, saying it had the infrastructure and hotels to welcome foreign travellers, albeit when the war was over. “Any money that people will spend in Ukraine will help the economy to recover,” said tourism boss Mariana Oleskiv. More than 70,000 people visited the disaster-ravaged area in 2021, with numbers peaking at almost 125,000 in 2019, three years before the war broke out.“People are interested in seeing Bucha because it’s evidence of Russian aggression in their own eyes, rather than just through the media,” he explains. But “they also wanted to see destroyed Russian vehicles, and the different kinds of drones used by both sides, as well as the famous exhibitions in Kyiv”.

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