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in Sweden, 10k SEK salory i survivableWhat is the tax rate in Sweden?
In order to raise a lot of income tax revenue, income tax rates in Scandinavian countries are rather high except for in Norway. Denmark's top marginal effective income tax rate is 60.4 percent. Sweden's is 56.4 percent. Norway's top marginal tax rate is 39 percent.Jun 10, 2015
Everywhere I look I can't find your 20-30% figure. If my data is wrong please give me sources.
Also, lets imagine this:
Imagine you need to spend an equal amount to other countries every year, or you will not be able to defend yourself AT ALL against anyone who wanted to attack you.
Now Imagine, You have one country that says "Hey, I will defend you, so you don't have to spend as much money on Defense."
Yay! Now you can spend all your money on Education, Healthcare, and Welfare.
So you raise your Taxes to HUGE amounts, something like 60%, and pay for everyone's stuff in your country, just hand out free stuff to everyone.
BUT, even with your high taxes, your country begins going into debt because of all the free stuff you are giving away. (Almost at 215 billion dollars)
Then people look at your country and think, "That is awesome, why can't we be like that?"
Well #1, even THEY cannot be like that, because they are going further into debt every year, which means it isn't sustainable.
And #2, Another country is paying for their defense budget.
The USA does need huge reforms in how we are spending our budget. But it isn't as simple as taking from the Defense Budget and placing it in Education.
15k is decent
20k is you now getting free hands to build your life
25k even better
30k somewhat rich unless you have loans to pay off or something
40k getting jealous here...
50k oh come on...
10k SEK ~= 20% tax
15k ~ 25%
20k - 35k ~30%
35k-45k ~35%
45k-60k ~40%
60+k ~50%
The first 16k SEK of the year, is tax free, if you paid too much taxes they are returned every summer.
These numbers aren't 100% accurate, but they're somewhat accurate.
I've been paying mostly 30% taxes the last 10 years on an income between 20-30k SEK.
10K SEK is around 1,100 Euro
Sweden also gets taxes from other ways, gas for example, 15~ SEK/liter which is about 80-90% taxes.
Booze is maybe around 70% taxes.
Ciggaretes and similar is also around 70% taxes.
Food in general you're buying is 25% taxes.
So maybe those 60% are correct, or not.. I can't be sure..
However, even thou the taxes you can easy build a life with salories in Sweden, you don't have to work 20 hours day just to keep an apartment.
And I wouldn't use Norway ever in any statistics, their economy is fucked up.. they earn A LOT more compared to Sweden, but in return their lives cost even more than the salary difference.
Lets say, you maybe make 2x more money working in Norway (maybe more), but in return living cost is 3x worse than Sweden.
For example, Big Mc in Sweden, around 5 Euro +/-.. in Norway, same damn dinner is about 15 Euro +/-
oh well, before I write too much, our world is pretty fucked up when shooting and bombing people comes before education and living <.<