Re:Most Danish voters oppose government plans to cut the top...
by flexie on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @08:19AM
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Taxes are very complicated in Denmark. I don't know anybody who can calculate their own tax without computer systems, and I say that as a lawyer who talks to accountants and tax advisors regularly.
Nobody just pays 50 percent. The tax is progressive and there are numerous deductions and special cases. The actual percentage of income paid is closer to 40 for most people. And then there is the mess of indirect taxes. And the details of the tax rules change significantly all the time.
But most of the majority of Danes, which are on some kind of welfare/pension/public education grants (2.2 million out of 4 million voters) and the half of the 1.8 million employed that work for the government, like the current system.
Nobody just pays 50 percent. The tax is progressive and there are numerous deductions and special cases. The actual percentage of income paid is closer to 40 for most people. And then there is the mess of indirect taxes. And the details of the tax rules change significantly all the time.
But most of the majority of Danes, which are on some kind of welfare/pension/public education grants (2.2 million out of 4 million voters) and the half of the 1.8 million employed that work for the government, like the current system.