Comments for Blacks in Brazil Start Working Earlier and Retire Later than Whites at http://www.brazzilmag.com , comment 0 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.brazzilmag.com Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:10:36 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/4549/1/#pc_1428 actually the taz collection rate in Brazil is very high when compared to GDP. The method of collecting taxes is essentially comparable to a blast from a shot gun. All lose little pellets spread everywhere will have to hit something. Same with taxes in Brazil, all the taxes spread out all over the place will have to hit something. Indeed they do, enough to support a government welfare state where those who are lucky enough to work for the government recieve such benefits as the ability to retire after a few years of service and then take anothher job. It also supports free university education, for the elite who can afford to send thier kids to private high schools to be able to pass the entrance exams. Brazil\'s problem isn\'t tax collection or tax evasion it is how that tax money is being used to only benefit a handful of people mostly belonging to the elite. - Guest Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:56:19 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/4549/1/#pc_1385 But if only around 30 % of workers are legally registered ( 35 % white and 25 % blacks) how are income taxes collected....properly and correctly ? Knowing that the bureaucracy, registered workers by definition, is at least 10 % in a country like Brazil known for over bureaucracy, it means that the total outside represents only 20 % at best ! No country will have a future when only 30 % of workers pay full income taxes on 100 % of their income to the government. NO WAY ! No doubt Lula is proud of these numbers too. No one should then be surprised that the government has not enough money for education, healthcare, infrastructure, pensions and social programs. No one should then be surprised that taxes are that high in your country. They wont and cannot be reduced with so much tax evasioni or with such a low tax collection rate ! This is the basis of unnaceptable injustice in every developed nation. - Guest Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:41:22 +0100