• nyctre@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    He’s talking about thresholds, not the actual salary. The fact that they said 44k to 45k and not 44.9k to 45k or 44.5k to 45k is just a coincidence.

    For example. Say there’s a threshold at 100k and the guy was currently at 90k salary. 10k would put him at 100k and that’s no good. He would’ve accepted a 9k raise, however. He had an issue with going from 99k to 100k, not the whole raise. Or in op’s case, 44 to 45k.

    Or at least that’s how I understood it.

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      5 months ago

      Commenter says this person believes… And proceeds to change the numbers in the post. I feel should have been consistent with the 10k as example.

    • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      This person believed that going from 44k to 45k would then change their tax bracket and their gross income would be taxed at 22%, thus reducing their net income.