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Re:Beyond Spotify and iZettle: How Sweden became Europe’s ca... by NullPrefix on Saturday September 08, 2018 @03:22PM (#17942318)
Isn't most of the Europe like that? Salary on contract is halfway between before-all-taxes and take home pay. Some taxes are paid by the employer, some others deducted from the employees salary. Way too unintuitive, but it is what it is.
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Re:Beyond Spotify and iZettle: How Sweden became Europe’s ca... by toxik on Saturday September 08, 2018 @03:27PM (#17942333)
I didn't know that! But it seems difficult to me to justify this system. Cost incurred for paying an employee is tax, anything else is make-believe -- the market forces are decided on cost to the employer, not quoted salary.
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