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In a previous article we left off with you on the calculation of the consumer basket. I dare to remember that our basket differs fundamentally from the European Union and it can easily equate and in fact in terms of value it is less than the state allocated for the maintenance of a prisoner. Consider the process of earning these 210 Ls. Take the average inhabitant. Responsible employee initiative, he heroically toiled the whole month and ... ... ?????

     Let us boring calculations. The most common business with us - trade. Suppose that there is a small kiosk and a conditional resident works by the seller. For convenience, we assume that the markup is 100% -t.e. selling 2 times more expensive than buying. The whole month we traded and at the end of the month received income in the entire 1000 Ls. First and foremost we have to pay VAT which in Latvia is 21%. But since we bought the goods at Ls 500 with VAT, the VAT should be paid only from 500 Ls and it is – 86.88 Ls

    Honestly transferring state 86.88 Ls remainder of the funds in the amount of 413.12 Ls, the worker decided to put on salary. Social tax, which pays for the employee's employer is 24.09% of salary and in our case will be - 80.20 Ls. Subtract the money from 413.12 Ls – 80.20 Ls, and we are left with 332.92 Ls.

Well, as a result of our contribution of taxes to the government when we have so-called salary on paper, with which we also have to pay taxes. They are two: the social and income taxes. One is 9%, and the second - already 26%. The order of calculation of these taxes, thank God, consecutive. This means that we first calculate the social tax - 9% and it is 29.96 Ls. Do not think that you can use this money as needed, and only upon reaching the retirement age. Calculate what we should have state? Yes, we have not paid more income tax. The system of calculation it is quite interesting. The state contends the so-called minimum, from which income tax is not charged. We turn to the calculations:

332.92 Ls – 29.96 Ls = 302.96 Ls.

302.96 - 35 (non-taxable minimum) = 267.96 26% will be 69.67 Ls.

267.96 – 69.67 = 198.29 Ls and add those same 35 Ls with which we have not paid tax

198.29 Ls + 35 Ls  = 233.29 Ls.

    Yes, ladies and gentlemen, after lengthy calculations we finally got some kind of a figure called the salary, which we can dispose of with a clear conscience. Yes, 233.29 Ls our money earned during the month. But I creeps interesting question: how much we pay to the state and leave yourself a percentage. Our income was 500 Ls – 266.71 Ls we have given the state and 233,29 Ls left itself. Accordingly, we pay 53.34% 46.66% State and remains to us. In today's environment, with different amounts of charges and additional. benefits we pay to the State from 55% to 53%.

And what do we paying more than half the State?

There is appropriate to recall the famous aphorism, though changing it word for a situation in Latvia, instead of Congress put the government, the essence this does not change:

The government faces an insoluble problem: how to get taxes from us, which we can not pay to spend it on something, what we do not need.

rus. DELFI.lv

June 10, 2009, 19:19

  Number of officials in the country do not affect the performance of public servants. This is also confirmed - the data about the army of civil servants in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. In 2008, the proportion of officials in the total population in Latvia amounted to almost 4%, in Estonia - 2% and in Lithuania - 0,6%.

    In this case, all three Baltic countries have to reduce the state apparatus in the crisis to 20%, reports Baltic Course.

Recall that in Lithuania live 3,3 million people. In Latvia - 2.3 million people. and Estonia, 1.3 million people, army officials in these countries has grown since the early 90's disproportionate population growth.

It is known that in the late 80-ies in the apparatus of government in Latvia was occupied by just under 10 thousand people. During the years of independence, a state apparatus grew like a snowball. The press has repeatedly talked about world records on the number of Latvians officials per capita.

In 2008, the Latvian government sector, there were 88.3 thousand persons or 7.65% of the economically active population in Estonia - 26 thousand or 0.93%, in Lithuania - 20 thousand, or 0.93 %. Proportion of officials in the general population of Latvia is 3.8%, Estonia - 2% and in Lithuania - 0,6%. This is despite the fact that the Lithuanian population the largest among the Baltic countries.

On this occasion it is appropriate to recall the parable of the conqueror, send their soldiers to collect tribute from the inhabitants of the conquered populations. When the soldiers came to take the tribute for the first time, people cried and begged not to take away from them, because all they have - this is the last. After listening to the soldiers, the governor sent them to collect tribute again. And for the second time the people cried and begged that they did not take the latter. Soldiers were sent to the tribute for the third time. The people they were met with laughter. People used to say: Take all you want, you still have nothing, and continued to laugh. Warriors because nothing had collected as a tribute and empty headed to the master. On returning, they told the governor, why have returned empty-handed, and the laughter of the conquered people. "If they laugh, then they really do not", - said the tyrant, and will not send soldiers into a village.

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