new PRSI hike - 'health levy' (1 Viewer)

[sealed human]

Whats going on with this 'health levy' increase that effectively increases your PRSI by 25-30%?? I got a payslip yesterday and the 2% pay levy is now in effect, along with a huge relative hike in PRSI. Basically thats over €1000 per annum (for me anyway) thats disappeared from my net pay since this whole mess started.

WTF?? I know the employed were expecting to take a tax hit in these times but come on! Anyone understand the structuring/reasoning behind this PRSI levy, and maybe a way to become exempt from it??

 

[pete]

first they came for the civil servants, etc

 

[jcdonaggio]

got my payslip today, I'm down roughly €700 a year over this.

 

[ernesto]

Whats going on with this 'health levy' increase that effectively increases your PRSI by 25-30%?? I got a payslip yesterday and the 2% pay levy is now in effect, along with a huge relative hike in PRSI. Basically thats over €1000 per annum (for me anyway) thats disappeared from my net pay since this whole mess started.

WTF?? I know the employed were expecting to take a tax hit in these times but come on! Anyone understand the structuring/reasoning behind this PRSI levy, and maybe a way to become exempt from it??

to pay for all the unemployed?

 

[Jill Hives]

got my payslip today, I'm down roughly €700 a year over this.

Nevermind.

 

[Goff]

If you qualify for a Medical Card, you won't have to pay the Health Levy. But the Income Levy is different. Everyone pays that. It's a sneaky way of taxing people who are below the tax thresholds. Fianna Fáil? Sneaky? You don't say.

 

[Diddles]

By having no income whatsoever, I have managed to avoid both the income levy and the health levy. That'll show the cunts.

 

[Pantone247]

the health levy was the biggest kicking for The Working Man in the budget, but was nicely snuck away and folks were too up in arms about the 1% levy too notice

pricks

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Ian Curtis - 29 years gone today!

can you 'claim back' PRSI?

 

[Goff]

Yes. It's called "the Dole".

But, no. It's not a "tax", y'see. Just like you won't be able to claim back "levies".

Cunts get you every which way.

 

[Jill Hives]

I opened my paycheck this morning. All I have to say is... this sucks beyond belief. Pension, income and health levies...OOF! That hurts.

 

[sweetoblivion]

It's a pain in the arse. I'm now taking home less money than before I got a (very) small wage increase a few months back

 

[pete]

It's truly depressing if you go back and compare your current take home pay with what you were getting last november / december.

 

[Super Dexta]

lalalalala I can't hear you lalalalala

 

[theoootini]

heurgh. not looking forward to this. expect to be down my monthly records/gigs allowance. will have to start eating less i guess...

 

[jcdonaggio]

i've decided to make the money back by fiddling my expenses. go me.

 

[rampz]

It's truly depressing if you go back and compare your current take home pay with what you were getting last november / december.

my deductions for the last 2 weeks came to 1143.06.

relative to my salary this is a lot. boo!

 

[maims bond]

To compound my misery, the idiot on payroll has been paying me the wrong salary since January, so i've to pay back around 700 euro.

 

[cpr]

Couldn't believe the difference when I checked my payslip. I'm down a hell of a lot on an already shit salary...and we've had to take a pay cut within our job too!fuuuuccccccckkkkkkkk.

 

[sealed human]

And the health levy has to be paid also, but in a different and totally separate way by anyone with a health insurance policy so thats more money gone from my creaking coffers, yayy!

Basically because I'm earning enough for the govt NOT to have to pay my medical bills, me taking provisions to insure against these costs has to be taxed by them, in addition to the levy I pay each week...

Bravo...