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Well, adding mandatory payments/taxes such as, social security, health insurance (%7.45 + %7.45 paid by employer), unemployment insurance and solidarity tax, pu
by csunbird 6y ago
Well, adding mandatory payments/taxes such as, social security, health insurance (%7.45 + %7.45 paid by employer), unemployment insurance and solidarity tax, pushes it to 20 percent - 35 percent area, based on your tax class. I am not even talking about the church tax if you are religious. In my opinion, I do not see any difference between income tax and the mandatory taxes.
- arrrg 6y agoMandatory insurance is mandatory insurance, not tax. To claim otherwise is manipulative. I already included the Soli in my calculations and church tax is strictly optional.
- csunbird 6y agoMy net income/gross income ratio is 0.59, which means an effective tax rate of %41. Are you sure about that they are not taxes? Those payments are decided based on a percentage of your income and are mandatory, which really sounds like a tax. Mandatory insurances/payments are taxes in disguise, where you support other people directly for a specific purpose, unlike indirectly for a general purpose. Either way, the state gets the money and distributes it, just like a tax.