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Miscellaneous See other Miscellaneous Articles Title: Swedes pay 70 percent of salary in taxes: study Swedes who earn a salary on par with the average municipal worker contribute the equivalent of 70 percent of their monthly salaries in taxes, a new study has found. Workers who earn 25,000 kronor ($3,810) per month end up paying 69 percent, or 17,200 kronor per month, in taxes, according to an analysis carried out by Swedbank. According to Statistics Sweden, the average salary of a municipal worker in Sweden in 2011 was 25,000 kronor. Meanwhile, two-child households earning 55,000 kronor per month contribute 38,000 kronor in taxes, Swedbank found. The sum includes taxes deducted from one's paycheck; value added taxes paid on consumption; as well as payroll taxes paid by employers. All told, taxes account for Swedes' largest monthly expense by far. "Taxes visible in our paychecks are one thing, but when you include taxes on consumption and payroll taxes, taxes end up being three times as high," Maria Ahrengart of Swedbank's Institute for Personal Finance (Institutet för Privatekonomi) said in a statement. In 2011, Swedes paid a total of 1.56 trillion kronor in taxes. According to Swedbank's analysis, which traced exactly where Swedes' tax money is spent, municipalities and the pension system consume most of what Swedes pay in taxes. "It's good to know what the money actually goes to and how tax money is divided," Ahrengart told the TT news agency. Of the 17,200 kronor in tax generated by a monthly salary of 25,000 kronor, 6,100 kronor or about 35 percent, goes to municipal taxes, while the pension system receives 4,300 kronor, or about 25 percent. Taxes paid directly to the state account for just under 20 percent of the worker's tax bill, or about 40,000 kronor per year. Of that sum, about 1,700 kronor goes to help pay Sweden's European Union membership fee, with an equal amount going toward foreign development aid. About 3,000 kronor is spent annually on education, compared with 2,500 kronor on defence and 4,200 on children and family programmes. Meanwhile, of the 73,000 kronor paid in local taxes annually, elderly care consumes the largest amount -- 14,000 kronor, or about 19 percent -- while childcare and education account for about 30,000 kronor, or 41 percent. "Much of what we pay in, we get out again in different ways," Ahrengart told TT. Poster Comment: stigskog No one seems to comment on the evil immorality of the state. You say to your small children -"don't hit", don't take", "don't threaten" because it is universally preferable behaviour. But the state uses violence, threats and kidnapping to steal 70% of peoples income. People say, but that's democracy, that's what the majority want... but if the majority wanted to rape the minority would that be okay ? no ? so how come its ok to steal and kidnap. You can have a government that is funded by voluntary taxes only, but it is a huge risk, because as soon as the massive prosperity arises out of peoples freedom the state will get greedy for its share. To paraphrase the late Murray Rothbard said 'Society is the sum total of voluntary interactions between people' ... note the word voluntary, so that excludes the parasitic state by BackpackerKev Am I just dumb or the fact that Sweden has such high tax rates, and is also a capitalist country just doesn't add up? You have High tax in a socialist country but an average tax in a capitalist country.. To me it just seems greedy, or the fact that Sweden's basic infrastructure is so in-effective, it cost the same for a country of 9 million that is does for one 4-5 times the population. i think the government read the book, How to be a capitalist country for dummies, but got no further than the index page. I am still absolutely disgusted that in the majority of places you must pay to use the toilets, as though the basic need of a human is a profitable business and allowed to be seen as such. In Central Stockholm, it takes 3 people to make sure the toilets are cleaned(10 stalls), and just one guy will take your money and then put it in the slot for you that you could have done yourself and charge 10kr.!! If this is not the very premise of an in-effective business model, you can only guess how much tax is spend on 5 people doing the job that 2 can do... by CCVB How can you say that healthcare is free???? I pay 150kr each time I see a doctor, 300kr to go to akut hospital so hows that free?????????????? have you all looked at your elec, water, phone etc bills????? 80 pct of it is only taxes, Sweden has been reported to be the most taxed country in the world, yes, even in front of Denmark ... perhaps in DK you pay a lot of taxes but you actually do get "free" healthcare, free education, free nursing homes when you neeed one, elderlies are well looked after, there is social care, unemployed people do not starve and can still afford food and heating etc etc so please, stop talking about Sweden as this wonderful magical country because it is not. far from it and FYI, I do live in Sweden, I dont intend to stay, hopefully, another couple of years and I am out, my hubby is Danish and I lived in the UK and Belgium before so I do have grounds to compare!!!!! Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 1.
#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
Sweden sorta works because they are all white, all northern European and all of the same culture.
#2. To: Turtle (#1)
Well I suppose it's a better alternative to that of centuries past when incompetent Swedish farmers had to steal and were chased out of the country only to steal and pillage abroad (as Vikings).
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