Re:Why I love Swedish taxes
by mcv on Saturday April 22, 2017 @03:44AM
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I'm a Dutch freelancer too, but my experience is very different. As a ZZPer I get a lot of tax cuts. The new DBA law does make it harder, and I may need to start paying the same taxes and premiums everybody else does, which might cost me 30% of my net income. Quite a bit, but that also emphasizes the sweet deal I got so far.
The VAT just means I can deduct way more VAT than normal salaried employees.
I do have a wife an kids, but the money I get for the kids isn't that much in comparison to my income, and I assure you that kids are far more expensive than that. My wife's income is slightly higher than mine, so that has no impact on the tax bracket I end up in.
Netherland isn't perfect (I'd really like to see a left-wing government here for a change; we'd been having right-wing or centrist governments for decades, and the current trend is even more right-wing as well as xenophobic), but I'm not sure where I'd want to emigrate. Sweden is among the top contenders, though.
The VAT just means I can deduct way more VAT than normal salaried employees.
I do have a wife an kids, but the money I get for the kids isn't that much in comparison to my income, and I assure you that kids are far more expensive than that. My wife's income is slightly higher than mine, so that has no impact on the tax bracket I end up in.
Netherland isn't perfect (I'd really like to see a left-wing government here for a change; we'd been having right-wing or centrist governments for decades, and the current trend is even more right-wing as well as xenophobic), but I'm not sure where I'd want to emigrate. Sweden is among the top contenders, though.