一片通英語(yǔ)聽(tīng)力小短文第五級(jí)5-4: 稅金-工作-在美國(guó)
稅金-工作-在美國(guó)
Tax is an inevitable feature of reality.Whether you are your own boss or working for someone else,there are always different taxes waiting to be paid.
稅金是現(xiàn)實(shí)中一個(gè)無(wú)可避免的事。無(wú)論你是自己當(dāng)老板還是為別人工作，總會(huì)有不同的況等著你去繳。
If you sell things,the government gets sales taxes.What complicates things is that every state is different,so price tags never include the taxes.Customers don't know exactly how much they have to pay,and discounts or price changes become hard to manage.
如果你賣東西，政府會(huì)抽消費(fèi)稅。復(fù)雜的是每一個(gè)州的稅率各不相同，所以那些商品的標(biāo)價(jià)都是不含稅的。顧客無(wú)法知道他們要付的正確數(shù)目到底是多少錢(qián)，而折扣與價(jià)格的變動(dòng)都變得難以管理。
When your money starts rolling in,you see that the calendar is closing in on April.That means the Internal Revenue Service(IRS)will be expecting your income taxes.Paying taxes isn't the worst part;what's annoying is that the forms have pages after pages of incomprehensible nonsense that only Harvard gradu-ates working in Washington DC understand.For the average person,his only option is to hire expensive accountants who punch numbers into calculators and help you do middle school arithmetic.
當(dāng)你開(kāi)始賺錢(qián)時(shí)，你就會(huì)看到四月快到了。那就意味著IRS(美國(guó)的國(guó)稅局)在等著收受你的所得稅。繳稅還不是最糟的事;最討厭的是那些表格都是一頁(yè)頁(yè)難以理解的東西，只有從哈佛大學(xué)畢業(yè)并在華盛頓DC工作的人才看得懂。對(duì)于普通人來(lái)說(shuō)，他唯一的選擇是花一堆的錢(qián)來(lái)雇一個(gè)會(huì)計(jì)師，請(qǐng)他把數(shù)字輸入計(jì)算器，幫你做中學(xué)會(huì)就會(huì)做的算術(shù)。
Now let me remind you that your work is doubled because you do both federal and state taxes.There's no way out;whatever you do,the government will wuck you dry.
現(xiàn)在讓我提醒你，你需要做的是雙份的數(shù)量，因?yàn)槟阌新?lián)邦稅和州稅兩項(xiàng)的稅務(wù)。這沒(méi)有可逃避的出路，不論你做的是什么，政府都會(huì)把你榨干。
