Our southern neighbors are not only famous for their beer and chocolate, but also for their exorbitant wage tax of 45.2 percent last year. In any of the 38 OECD countries, workers don’t have to pay that much money. Then we have nothing to complain about in Holland.
This concerns not only income tax, but also all premiums for the employer and employees. After Belgium, Germany, France and Italy, they all carry a tax burden of 40.9 percent.
We find only the Netherlands in 26th place with an average tax rate of 27.4 per cent, around the OECD average of 28.8 per cent. This puts us well ahead of the UK, where 27.2 per cent are paid. Again, we seem to have more in common with our Anglo-Saxon neighbor abroad than with the social democratic nations around us with which we can compare them.
This is the full list of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that publishes this public view annually:
- Belgium – 45.2 per cent
- Germany – 40.9 percent
- France – 40.9 percent
- Italy – 40.9 percent
- Sweden – 38.5 per cent
- Austria – 38.4 percent
- Turkey – 37.9 percent
- Finland – 37.6 percent
- Portugal – 37.2 percent
- Slovenia – 36.4 percent
- Spain – 36.2 percent
- Slovakia
- Hungary
- Latvia
- Greece
- Norway
- Estonia
- Latvia
- Denmark
- Czech Republic
- Iceland
- Japan
- Luxembourg
- Costa Rica
- Canada
- Netherlands – 27.4 per cent
- United kingdom
- Ireland
- Australia
- Poland
- South Korea
- Mexico
- Israel
- United States – 17.9 percent
- New Zealand
- Switzerland – 16.8 percent
- Colombia
- Chili pepper
