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60k/year doesn't feel above-average considering the rent in Barcelona for example. I wonder, have there been any studies/considerations for making rent tax-ded
by Nextgrid 1y ago
60k/year doesn't feel above-average considering the rent in Barcelona for example.
I wonder, have there been any studies/considerations for making rent tax-deductible for individuals? That would address this problem for example. There probably is a good reason for not doing it, but I wonder what it is.
- diggan 1y ago> 60k/year doesn't feel above-average considering the rent in Barcelona for example. Barcelona (and Madrid) are extreme examples though, not "average" by most measures. Take a look at houses/apartments just 30 minutes outside of Barcelona (not too familiar with Madrid) and it's way easier to find affordable places, and it's easy enough to get into the city with trains and buses.
- rsanek 1y agoI don't know if I'd say "extreme example", >10% of the entire country lives in one of those cities.
- diggan 1y agoSome quick "on top of my head" math tells me ~10% of the population in Spain lives in Madrid or Barcelona, so that pretty much makes it a minority in my head. Put another way, the majority (90%) of the Spanish population lives somewhere else than in Madrid or Barcelona. Even if you count the greater metropolitan area (where I'm part of the Barcelona one myself, although I live 30 minutes away from the city), you only get up ~20% of the population living in either Madrid or Barcelona. Even then I'd say we're in minority compared to the people who don't live in either those "metropolitan" areas.
- eithed 1y agoAccounting for wages being influenced by cost of living of the place you're registered in when determining tax bracket seems like a solution (but it's just my naive thinking)