Taxes: here, there and everywhere

Taxes: here, there and everywhere
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Simon Robertson
"I have been a high-taxed man and I have been a low-taxed man. And I choose a low tax every (insert expletive beginning with ‘f’ here) time."That’s a bastardisation of the "rich man" v "poor man" quote from The Wolf of Wall Street.Personally, I have paid taxes in Hong Kong (low) and New York (high), and now I am somewhere in between, residing in New Zealand.Some tax history In Ancient Egypt (3,000 BCE), it was through grain and livestock to feed those in need. Moving forward, much of the taxation...

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