 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | I lived in Germany for six years and when I came back to the states I was telling everyone what a GREAT tax system we had, inexpensive and simple!
The German taxes are so complicated that either your employer or the German version of a CPA does them -- No one that I ever met did their own, not even the owner of a tax franchise doing US taxes for gummint people. The highest tax bracket in the system was 65%!! Almost double our current high! In addition, Germans paid a national sales tax of 15%!!
A German local postage stamp cost MORE than a US overseas stamp.
BTW, did you know Canadians have to pay tax when they buy postage stamps?
Age 67 1/2
Ventral Tongue SCC T2N0M0G1 10/05
Anterior Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 6/08
Base of Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 12/08
Three partial glossectomy (10/05,11/05,6/08), PEG, 37 XRT 66.6 Gy 1/06
Neck dissection, trach, PEG & forearm free flap (6/08)
Total glossectomy, trach, PEG & thigh free flap (12/08)
On August 21, 2010 at 9:20 am, Pete went off to play with the ratties in the sky.
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