What's left of a €100,000 salary after tax across Europe? - Euronews.com

Rob Waters moved from Virginia to San Francisco to focus on building his AI startup, Kanawai AI. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rob Waters, a former Google employee who was laid off last November. The 42-year-old cofounded Kanawai AI and lives in San Francisco. The following has been edited for length and clarity. In November 2025, I was on a flight to Los Angeles to meet with a customer when my laptop screen suddenly went black. My laptop rebooted, but when I tried to log back in, it didn't work. Then I felt my personal phone buzz. I had an email from Google HR saying I'd been impacted by a layoff and my role was no longer necessary. I had no notice. My access was cut off immediately. I had to email the customer I was flying to meet from my personal account and cancel our meeting. The timing felt like something out of a movie — like I couldn't make it up. I'd spent nearly six years at Google. Working there had been a dream of mine, and by the end, I was leading the data analytics and AI sales specialist team for Google Public Sector. Now, suddenly, it was over. I had a chance to return to GoogleI landed in Los Angeles around 12:30 in the morning.

IN THIS two-part series, part one set out what changed: a small business rate cut to 2.2 per cent in both Ontario and Quebec, and a reduction in the provincial dividend tax credit on non-eligible dividends for 2027. This part works the arithmetic and asks what is worth revisiting. Two notes before the numbers. The 2027 figures assume federal rates and the ordinary provincial brackets are otherwise unchanged from 2026, so they move only by the announced credit reduction. And Quebec's measures were announced in an information bulletin from the Ministere des Finances; I have not separately confirmed their enacting legislation. The top-bracket rates below are derived rather than quoted, and the derivations are set out for the editor at the end.