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Same BS every year (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

There's certainly taxes, I paid income tax and they revised the rates at least once while I was living there. No sales tax that I noticed but that's not the only tax.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

What city? I mean, most payments are done in cash (at least it was pre-2010), so its not like the government would have a good way to track everyone's income. I've never heard of anything about "filing taxes" like the US does.

If you are a foreign citizen working in China, that could be a reason why things were different

So I googled a bit and, although Wikipedia isn't a source, its a non-political topic so it should be accurate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_China

Apparantly, there is an exemption if you make under a certain amount per month, so my parents probably didn't make enough to get taxes or they just under-reported (i mean, its all in cash so... 🤷‍♂️)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, but that's not the argument you were making. You said there were no taxes.

Income tax is a tax even if you don't pay it at certain levels. In the US if you make under something like 20k a year that is also effectively tax exempt due to low income. Doesn't mean there are no taxes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I said I never saw them in any visible form. Of couse taxes exist, they exist in every society.