Originally Posted By: Boelle
but my tax rate is 49% of the income.. but it's calculated like this:

first they take 10%... then i have a "free" amount for which i dont pay tax... then they take the last 39%....´may sound insane, but then you have to look at the benefits...

It's graduated taxes. The US, and Canada have the same sort of structure, only at different levels. You can see the brackets on wikipedia.

I nearly cried just now -- I discovered that at my current pay scale, I'd be paying less tax in Canada, than I am in the US.