If you add the cost of health insurance which is included in Germany for example, Ireland is up there at the top for employees. It’s just employers who contribute less
What is the sample salary used for this? The %s will change greatly depending on the sample salary chosen, allowing statistics like this to be abused to make various different points. For example, this chart seems to make the point that we don’t pay enough tax, which is actually true but only for low earners.
But but Ireland is a “high” tax country /s
What missing from the graph is what we get in return…
Take France for example where welfare benefits are linked to your salary. So someone earning 1000 a won’t get the same as some earning 300 if they are both made redundant
Do other countries have better health , education , waste collections, public transport etc
If you look at income tax and employee prsi only, Ireland is the second or third highest.
This is skewed by the compariyively low employer prsi rate.
I think there should be more of a progressive tax structure.
Not just boom over 40k now youre on 40% on any additional income.
E.g. youre a part time worker on 5k you pay 5% tax, youre a 20k graduate, you pay 10% etc.
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If you add the cost of health insurance which is included in Germany for example, Ireland is up there at the top for employees. It’s just employers who contribute less
What is the sample salary used for this? The %s will change greatly depending on the sample salary chosen, allowing statistics like this to be abused to make various different points. For example, this chart seems to make the point that we don’t pay enough tax, which is actually true but only for low earners.
But but Ireland is a “high” tax country /s
What missing from the graph is what we get in return…
Take France for example where welfare benefits are linked to your salary. So someone earning 1000 a won’t get the same as some earning 300 if they are both made redundant
Do other countries have better health , education , waste collections, public transport etc
If you look at income tax and employee prsi only, Ireland is the second or third highest.
This is skewed by the compariyively low employer prsi rate.
I think there should be more of a progressive tax structure.
Not just boom over 40k now youre on 40% on any additional income.
E.g. youre a part time worker on 5k you pay 5% tax, youre a 20k graduate, you pay 10% etc.