It's the UK tax that is more complex for me as i'm not familiar with it. Isn't the NI more or less the equivalent of social security charges? But now I underst

It's the UK tax that is more complex for me as i'm not familiar with it. Isn't the NI more or less the equivalent of social security charges? But now I understand where my math is wrong - I got the UK tax brackets wrong. For Germany I took ~42% (actually 39%) as what the state will take from a 58k€ salary but in the UK the state will take 25% of the £50k salary (most of the income in the 20% bracket). That is indeed significantly less.