New MTA Tax – I’m Mad!

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Isn’t it enough that small businesses get slammed with massive taxes?  I mean come on.  We pay for payroll taxes on the taxes that our staff already pays.  We pay self-employment tax on the tax that already comes out of our paychecks. We pay tax for our rental property and the list goes on!

And now there’s a new tax — The MTA tax — and it doesn’t really seem fair to me.  We pay a percentage of our employees pay and that goes toward a “commuter tax.”

The only one on staff who really commutes, is me.  And I have to pay that too!  Does that seem right to you?

But the clincher was the other day.  I was in New York City on several appointments.  I usually take the subway but I was running late and just hopped into a cab.

“Take me to the corner of 33 and 8th Avenue,” I told the driver.

When we got there, I noticed that there was an additional charge of $.50 cents.

“Why are you charging me an additional 50 cents?” I asked the driver.

“Oh, that’s the new MTA tax,” he said.

“Wait a second,” I said. “I don’t understand.  I’m paying this tax every month and now I’m getting hit sitting in a cab?  Isn’t that double dipping?”

He laughed, gave me my change and I was out the door.  Maybe we should just hand over all of our money to the government?

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