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Re:How a Tax Law Helps Insure a Scarcity of Programmers (1998) by elai on Friday February 19, 2010 @05:50PM (#1138177)
CPP (Canadian Pension Plan) and EI (employment insurance) take around %12 of the first $50'000 annually (CPP maxes out after that) so it is pretty significant if you hire mostly median waged people.
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Re:How a Tax Law Helps Insure a Scarcity of Programmers (1998) by cperciva on Friday February 19, 2010 @06:53PM (#1138273)
IIRC self-employed people need to pay the employer part of those, so it's just a matter of changing who pays, not the total taxes.
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