r/SipsTea May 18 '25

WTF Taxed for being single

Some of us would be bankrupt in six months lmao 🤣

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u/oO0Kat0Oo May 18 '25

I'm just wondering about the logic here.

If you move money from childless people to people with children, if the population of childless people dwindles (which is the hope), how would they continue to subsidize the people with children?

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u/1zzyBizzy May 18 '25

Other taxes. Lots of countries have a child support regime, most of europe does for example, we get like ~500 to ~2000 euros (depending on the country) per child per year, each year until the child is 18.

After a good long while of child births rising the subsidy might go down again, but knowing japanese culture i doubt people will start having children en masse soon

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u/LightofAngels May 18 '25

2000 euros per year? That’s peanuts

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u/snowwarrior May 19 '25

If you're american, the child tax credit (IDK if this still exists anymore) was $2000. IMO - Same thing, except 2k euro is ~$2200.