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If payroll taxes were 100% the responsibility of the employer, and included the employee's income tax obligation. So in the US the taxes are effectively split b

If payroll taxes were 100% the responsibility of the employer, and included the employee's income tax obligation. So in the US the taxes are effectively split between the employer and the employee, but in China they're basically all on the employer with a trivial amount charged to the employee. One of the gotchas if you plan on operating a business in China at all.

conanbatt 8y ago
Economically speaking, payroll taxes are always a burden on the employee, not on the employer, even if the employer is the one writing the check.
- aoeusnth1 8y ago
  Doesn't that depend on the relative price sensitivity of the employer vs. the employee - namely, the elasticity of labor demand / supply?
  - conanbatt 8y ago
    That is correct, its just that employees are a lot less inelastic than employers, for multiple practical reasons.