do policemen and firemen pay income tax?

[BooGiMaN]

We were having a conversation at lunch and some stated that those professions are exempt from having to pay taxes on their work imcome...is this true?

 

[notfred]

No.

Edit: No, it's not true. Don't ask opposing questions in the title and thread body.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: notfred
No.

Edit: No, it's not true. Don't ask opposing questions in the title and thread body.

 

[BigJ]

I'm pretty sure it isn't true in NY. My dad was a CO at Rikers Island and I'm almost positive he had a nice chunk taken out for taxes, not only in NYC, but also from Nassau cause he commuted.

 

[NakaNaka]

I think they get major deductions but they have to pay some taxes.

 

[booger711]

Originally posted by: notfred
No.

Edit: No, it's not true. Don't ask opposing questions in the title and thread body.

 

[Slacker]

yes! um no? wait... what?

 

[Amused]

They pay taxes, as well as the military.

 

[Cat13]

Originally posted by: Amused
They pay taxes, as well as the military.

Unless they are in a hostile region and it is considered a tax free zone, like most of the places we deploy to now days in the military. I know for me, as long as I spend at least 1 day in a hostile territory, that month is tax free.

Most inner cities are hostile right? 😉

 

[T2T III]

Originally posted by: NakaNaka
I think they get major deductions but they have to pay some taxes.

They don't get any more deductions than you or I do. Income is income and it is taxable.

 

[btz0013]

yup, they pays the taxes

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Cat13

Originally posted by: Amused
They pay taxes, as well as the military.

Unless they are in a hostile region and it is considered a tax free zone, like most of the places we deploy to now days in the military. I know for me, as long as I spend at least 1 day in a hostile territory, that month is tax free.

Most inner cities are hostile right? 😉

I dunno, but my house was a hostile region when I lived with my now ex-wife.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN
We were having a conversation at lunch and some stated that those professions are exempt from having to pay taxes on their work imcome...is this true?

This isn't the movie Armageddon, policemen and firemen pay income tax.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN
We were having a conversation at lunch and some stated that those professions are exempt from having to pay taxes on their work imcome...is this true?

This isn't the movie Armageddon, policemen and firemen pay income tax.

And follow the laws of physics.

 

[AdamDuritz99]

yes they pay taxes.

 

[PowderBB3D]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN
We were having a conversation at lunch and some stated that those professions are exempt from having to pay taxes on their work imcome...is this true?

This isn't the movie Armageddon, policemen and firemen pay income tax.

And follow the laws of physics.

Dude no. I will TOTALLY land my space shuttle on a comet and blow it up, saving the world. Physics is for loser nerds, the rest of us don't need to worry about it.

:laugh:

 

[RobCur]

Originally posted by: btz0013
yup, they pays the taxes

True but it's only 1 percentage so everyone would STFU 🙂

 

[RobCur]

3000 a month = 30 dollar of taxes? nice chunk of change 😀

 

[StageLeft]

Even IRS employees pay taxes 🙂

 

[Dissipate]

No government employee pays income tax. Sure they file forms with the IRS and sends them money, but they still do not pay tax. Why not? Because their income comes from taxes! This is a no-brainer, but the government requires government employees to still "pay tax" just to perpetuate the myth that they do.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Dissipate
No government employee pays income tax. Sure they file forms with the IRS and sends them money, but they still do not pay tax. Why not? Because their income comes from taxes! This is a no-brainer, but the government requires government employees to still "pay tax" just to perpetuate the myth that they do.

I guess that's one way to look at it, although it's not merely perpetuating a myth. By receiving a certain income and then paying it back, it gives them full tax benefits in terms of discretionary filing - child tax credit, itemized deductions and all that crap. Ie. it wouldn't be the same effect as just paying them less, but saying that they don't have to pay.

 

[RobCur]

They are exempt, unless they are that stupid to pay taxes like we do, they would be very poor and couldn't even afford gasoline 🙂
They pay no taxes, files whatever their income is and at the end of the year get the most refunds that has ever known to man kind!!! Best of all, it costs them nothing to file taxes or it's all being done automatically by the government themselves(a free service from the irs).
Got a problem with it? go complain to the government, comprende?