Taxes
Taxation in the US is seriously crazy, particularly income tax and the concept of withholding. My brain hurts from reading the Wikipedia articles.
A top bracket of 35%, on worldwide income? Whoa.
Now I see why they have tax professionals. The urge to bitch about IRAS’ myTax portal and peripherals is suddenly lessened. I’ve been helping with (e-)filing for the past few years and nothing much has happened, other than misguided, unsupervised clicks.
That said, it’s curious that some countries have excise duty on petrol, while others subsidise their petrol. And have to adopt rather strange measures as a result of that.
