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@Haych @sjw That doesn't seem that high.

Every percentage is from rough income (pretax).
Here in Czechia income tax is 15% (income over 48x of national average is 23% (it used to be called solidarity tax lmao)).

Health insurance is 13.5% for self-employed, for employees 9% is paid by the employer and 4.5% by the employee.
Pension is included in social insurance, which is 6% paid by the employee, 24.5% by employer, 29.2% for self-employed.

Tax from acquiring property got canceled, but property tax is still here and it's calculated from property size, type and location (higher population region = higher tax).

Plus you have VAT which depends on items.

I hope I got things correctly.

However I don't know what the real percentage people here pay to the state is, because you can write off various things.

@Haych @sjw I don't know how it is in the UK, but you don't pay just income tax which by itself isn't that high, but you also pay insurance, pension, VAT and property tax which does add up to like 60%

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