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Not sure what country you are, but most also have the Employer pay on top of that too. So you might pay a 10% social security tax, and the employer might be pa
by mattmanser 5y ago
Not sure what country you are, but most also have the Employer pay on top of that too.
So you might pay a 10% social security tax, and the employer might be paying an additional 15% that doesn't appear on your payslip.
That's what Amazon, etc. are talking about when they say they pay a load of employment taxes.
That's also why a lot of countries are eying the gig economy with skepticism, it's actually often just a massive tax dodge for the company to not pay employment taxes.
- jhrmnn 5y agoI never understood why this distinction is made and why it’s not just obfuscation. The real numbers are the cost of an employee to the employer and the amount the employee gets, the difference is what the state took as a tax, and the way that cut is divided to different state budget chapters is inconsequential to both the employee and the employer