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A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

Currently: WhatsABI

Always blew my mind how cheap capital gains taxes were in Canada. If you just made $200k in capital gains in Ontario, you'd basically be paying 11.44% in taxes (compared to 18.65% in California for long term, 27.07% for short term!!).

Fun fact: As an Ontario resident earning regular income of $150K CAD, you'd pay a total of 31.6% in taxes. As a California resident earning $150K USD, you'd pay more in taxes: 32.5%.

Slightly less at $350K, $500K:
- Ontario: 42.8%, 46%
- California: 39%, 42.3%

Also:

Fun fact: As an Ontario resident earning regular income of $150K CAD, you'd pay a total of 31.6% in taxes. As a California resident earning $150K USD, you'd pay more in taxes: 32.5%.

Slightly less at $350K, $500K:
- Ontario: 42.8%, 46%
- California: 39%, 42.3%

Also: https://warpcast.com/shazow.eth/0xa59d0996

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

shazow.net

Currently: WhatsABI

It's also hard to appreciate how expensive it is to be self-employed in the US, health insurance costs range from $200-2000/mo (median around $500/mo last I checked).

Only option is to incorporate, raise funding, and get group insurance. Bootstrapping is incredibly risky, in ways that is fairly safe in Canada.

Top marginal rate is not interesting IMO because different countries have different tiers. Comparing top tier to top tier is apples to oranges. Could be $350k vs $1M. Compare a specific percentile income amount (median, or even 80%ile, 95%ile, whatever).

Top marginal rate in California is 37% + 14.4% = 51.4%

Good post but the numbers looks bad when compared to other cities with much less income tax. Also yes Insurance is expense but vice versa is true for housing here in Canada