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> healthcare is free, but kind of missing Reading this part made me think "which other country is like Romania?" Sure enough, the author is from Bucharest, Ro

• burntoutfire 6y ago
  Interesting, I have always associated Romania (and most of post-Soviet Europe) with low taxes. Does it really have Scandinavian-level taxation?
  • fierarul 6y ago
    We pay 10% of our pre-tax salary for "health care"; which you pray to God not to need and most good companies offer private healthcare subscription to compensate/entice. We pay 25% for a pension that may never come. The state also computes pensions in magical "points" which means they can arbitrarily tweak in the far future how much of your current money you see back. We pay "only" 10% in income taxes and some/many IT positions are exempt (so far). Once we have our salary in hand, we pay 19% in VAT.
    • ChuckNorris89 6y ago
      That's still much lower than most European countries like Germany and Scandinavia.
      • elygre 6y ago
        It sounded like 10+10+25=45%. That matches Norway, with a highest tax on salary of 46.4%.