Most difficult bill you've ever paid..

[Mazrim]

I felt bad about giving up so much money to go to College, but it was the $1200 I spent on the first day on textbooks that was the hardest thing for me to pay for, even though that was a smaller amount. How they could charge me $200+ for a textbook was beyond me, and in the end I used only half of the textbooks enough to consider them worth the cost. Thank god wood design and statics books are still useful after school.

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

And Table's **** is officially longer than Hesla's.

Meh, not really. Since I'm self-employed, I don't pay taxes like most people who have it taken off their salary every paycheque. I pretty much had to do it all in one-shot at the end of the year, which is why its such a high number. Most people are probably in this ball-park, they just spread it out over the year so it feels less painful.

I did have thoughts of buying a Cayman and running for the border though.

[Ozy_Flame]

The hardest bills to pay are the ones when your friends cop out and don't pay their share of the tab. Bugs me every time it happens, and it doesn't matter how old you are; people of all ages do it.

[WilsonFourTwo]

Originally Posted by Hesla

$37000 for taxes.

LOL. Thanks for the hospital, appreciate it!

[WilsonFourTwo]

Originally Posted by pylon

Now any time I go anywhere wiuth the intent of gambling, I stick $1000 cash in my pocket, and walk if I double it or lose it. The good news is, using that logic, I am up $5000 since the incident, I have actually tracked the losses/winnings on a spreadsheet for the last 10 years since. Once I get back my $7000, I will never gamble again.

Haha, I love the logic. I think you need a meeting.

[The Yen Man]

Hmm, I would have to say $80K for the downpayment of my house. It was stupidly stressful too because the bank kept telling me to treat the money order like cash and that if I lost it, I potentially lose $80K.

[flamesfan55]

Originally Posted by Table 5

$2,000 for a new laptop, after I accidentally spilled coke all over my last one and heard it start to fry from the inside. This was in college when $2k was basically my entire savings...so more than a little hard to swallow.

That and having to pay 50k in taxes this year (especially since the previous year i paid 5)....that was a little soul crushing to say the least.

I have to ask what you have to do as a career to end up paying 50k in taxes???

[pylon]

Originally Posted by WilsonFourTwo

Haha, I love the logic. I think you need a meeting.

Nope, no GA for me. I gamble in spite now. I just want my bloody 7K back on principle. It still pisses me off thinking about how stupid that night was.

Last time I was in Vegas, playing poker was a chore, and I waited until the last day to do it. But I doubled my $1000 on three hands and an all in push, which actually netted me about $1400. I honestly hate gambling now, it is as they say, an idiot tax.

[Tinordi]

Originally Posted by pylon

That was a rough one, as it was a free cruise I won through the company.So the only way I kinda justified it, was the full retail value of the cruise without any sort of discount and flights was about $6000, (which of course could be had for about $3000 if you shopped around.)

So I convinced myself it was really only a $1000 loss, until the bill showed up that logic changed.

Now any time I go anywhere wiuth the intent of gambling, I stick $1000 cash in my pocket, and walk if I double it or lose it. The good news is, using that logic, I am up $5000 since the incident, I have actually tracked the losses/winnings on a spreadsheet for the last 10 years since. Once I get back my $7000, I will never gamble again.

A proper method would discount your winnings at an appropriate discount rate like 3% with you having pay the NPV of the $7000 you lost ten years ago. It'll work out to more than $7000 you have to pay back.

[JustAnotherGuy]

Paying $1200 to the lawyer so he could pay out the various credit cards and personal taxes owing when I did that consolidation loan a few years back. eff'n lawyer.

[flizzenflozz]

Hardest Bill you've ever payed..

Your ESL tuition payment must have stung.

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by flamesfan55

I have to ask what you have to do as a career to end up paying 50k in taxes???

Professional Art Fag.

But as I said, it's not that much, just I just tend to pay in one chunk as opposed to 24 small ones like most people. I bet half of CP pays more than than in a year.

[kirant]

Originally Posted by Mazrim

I felt bad about giving up so much money to go to College, but it was the $1200 I spent on the first day on textbooks that was the hardest thing for me to pay for, even though that was a smaller amount. How they could charge me $200+ for a textbook was beyond me, and in the end I used only half of the textbooks enough to consider them worth the cost. Thank god wood design and statics books are still useful after school.

I know. My Statics and Circuitry books are SO helping me right now.

[red sky]

Originally Posted by flizzenflozz

Hardest Bill you've ever payed..

Your ESL tuition payment must have stung.

If we are going to Nazi him then it it should be bill not Bill, and Hardest should really be Most difficult

[JiriHrdina]

I hate paying for car repairs - you don't end up with anything more - you are just paying to maintain your current situation.

My wife was trying to get the attention of a friend in an apartment on the 2nd floor. She thought she could toss a pebble into the window to alert them - but selected a stone a little too big and it went clean through. That was a $800 touch that was tough to swallow.

[Glorious #1]

Originally Posted by flizzenflozz

Hardest Bill you've ever payed..

Your ESL tuition payment must have stung.

Ahaha wow. What a mistake. ( Thankfully not an English major)

(Just did a little bit of research, "Payed" Is not entirely incorrect.)

Anyways, I hope you guys can contribute more to this thread than just yanking my chain over grammar and spelling.

[The Yen Man]

Originally Posted by flamesfan55

Good god

I dunno, I think Hesla's an optometrist, so realistically his salary should be around $100K ish, so $37K in taxes sound about right.

[Suave]

Originally Posted by Table 5

Professional Art Fag.

But as I said, it's not that much, just I just tend to pay in one chunk as opposed to 24 small ones like most people. I bet half of CP pays more than than in a year.

In order to pay $50,000 in taxes in Alberta, you would have to make over $162,000.

[Locke]

Hardest I've ever had to pay was probably tuition. Thats always a bitch.

As an accountant preparing taxes for the rich and famous I've seen some doozies. Be it from the self employed, the regularly employed and the heavy investors.

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by fotze

I think he is saying by doing the math you make in the $150k to 200k range, and being in the US its likely more due to the lower tax rate.

In that case, I made $15,000 in 2009. Man, if i knew people were going to try to dissect my salary, i never would said anything.