{"id":1179,"date":"2008-11-24T02:56:11","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T07:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2008-11-30T03:13:26","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T08:13:26","slug":"taxes-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/11\/24\/taxes-2008","title":{"rendered":"Taxes (2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>More for my reference than anything else&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I originally read it in the dead tree edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theedgedaily.com\/cms\/index.jsp\">The Edge<\/a>. Its a pity they don&#8217;t place all their content online (worried about people not buying your paper for RM5? Place it online after a month, its &#8220;dated&#8221; enough to be free).<\/p>\n<p>Facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>According to Second Finance Minister Nor Mohamed Yakcop, only 1.2 million of Malaysia&#8217;s 10.5 million workers earn more and pay income tax.<\/li>\n<li>Only 38,500 earning a taxable income of RM100,000 and above are in the highest tax bracket.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The above via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/Business\/News\/My%2BMoney\/Story\/A1Story20080610-69993.html\">Malaysians brace themselves for higher cost of living<\/a>. If you can get past the opinion, most of the article is quoted <a href=\"http:\/\/rockybru.com.my\/2008\/06\/hacked.html?showComment=1212979560000#c7241842115883367518\">in this comment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Taxes%20%282008%29&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F11%2F24%2Ftaxes-2008&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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