eyeonFI
Recycles dryer sheets
- Joined
- Mar 21, 2005
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Just finished my taxes (and feeling slightly sick about how much I have to pay), I wondered if I am giving more to Uncle Sam than I am spending. So I figured out that my 2014 gross income was distributed as follows:
28.6% income-related taxes (Fed/State/FICA/Med)
31.2% spent
40.2% saved
If I switch my real estate taxes from the spending category to the tax category, I paid more in taxes than I spent last year.
Yes, it's great to have such a high gross that I owe so much in taxes, but nonetheless I am really looking forward to next year when that tax % should fall way down (I plan to quit working in August). And the next year, when it should approach 0 as I live off my after-tax stash.
28.6% income-related taxes (Fed/State/FICA/Med)
31.2% spent
40.2% saved
If I switch my real estate taxes from the spending category to the tax category, I paid more in taxes than I spent last year.
Yes, it's great to have such a high gross that I owe so much in taxes, but nonetheless I am really looking forward to next year when that tax % should fall way down (I plan to quit working in August). And the next year, when it should approach 0 as I live off my after-tax stash.