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If by those unaffected by COVID you mean self-employed people, not sure that's really the case, as taxes for people that are employed by a Bulgarian company are
by gcbirzan 5y ago
If by those unaffected by COVID you mean self-employed people, not sure that's really the case, as taxes for people that are employed by a Bulgarian company are not THAT much higher. Using the 10k BGN example, your net salary is 8627.94, and the employer (of course, excluding accounting and all that stuff) pays 10567.60.
I don't remember exactly the numbers for self employed, but if his are correct (and they seem a bit off, maybe because of the missing health insurance), the difference is basically 5-600 BGN, so 5-6pp.
- phoronixrly 5y agoThe plans are to raise the maximal social security income (“максимален осигурителен доход”). This will arguably* disproportionately affect people with incomes above 3000 BGN. *) Arguably because (while they could easily afford to pay more tax) higher income employees usually get taxed on their actual amount of income as opposed by the rampant tax evasion among employees with lower pay and their employers (so called grey economy: employers declare they pay a given employee the BG equivalent of the US 'minimum wage' which the employee receives monthly via bank transfer, while the rest of the salary is given in cash and not declared).
- gcbirzan 5y agoDidn't they raise it? To be fair, I've always thought it's way too low.