Hibijibi wrote:
> "Dave Fossett" wrote...
> 
>>I read today that the Tsukushi Tetsuya, the main newsreader on TBS's News
>>23, has removed himself indefinitely after admitting that he had failed to
>>pay his pension contributions for a period in the past.
>>Isn't this all getting rather silly?
> 
> Tell you the truth, I have not understood this story from the beginning.
> 
> How does one avoid paying a pension contribution?  Slacker that I am, I'd
> like to know how to do that too.

Be self employed and do your own taxes. Get busy, forget, cash shortfall 
whatever, before you know you could do it too.

> Aren't pension benefits withheld from an employee's paycheck or in taxes?
> And couldn't you just go back and pay whatever you owed?

Yes you can go back and pay. Problem is that a lot of the people who owe 
can't go back and pay.

> I'm clueless.
> hibijibi

Not as clueless as resigning a perfectly good newsreaders job over such 
a silly issue. At one stage in the 1980's, the Australian treasurer 
(equivalent of Secretary of the Treasury/Chancellor of the Exchequer et 
al) simply "forgot" to file his own tax return. Resignation? Pffft.


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