{"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":"https:\/\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More for my reference than anything else&#8230; I originally read it in the dead tree edition of The Edge. 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). Facts: According to Second Finance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[137,575,573],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-malaysia","tag-statistics","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-j1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/1184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}