We still have the highest taxes for OECD countries:
*”For single, childless people, the tax wedge in Belgium is 52.7%.”* based on an average wage.
**58.9% tax !**
*”Those earning more than the average wage are even worse off. A single person working at a high wage (167% of the average wage) loses €58.9 of every €100 paid by the employer.”*
Which in practice includes divorced parents where one parent is has the child registered, who gets child allowance, and the other parent still has to pay for the children’s upbringing. The government will not let children be registered even if they live 50/50. This is certainly true in my case. I pay a monthly amount for my child, yet we still go halves on everything the Ex pays for, but nothing that I pay for. There is no legal framework that that works in practice. e.g I have lost healthcare insurance from the mutual for my chid because parentA registered them with a Maison Medicale 100kms away. So, I pay the full 29 euros for doctor and nothing is re-imbursed by the mutule. Yet top tax rate because they class me for single. We are hit with 52.7% and still have to bring up our children and get nothing reimbursed from the mutule. We get nothing from the government. How about they look into this? Nope. They want the tax.
*”The continued social discrimination in Belgium against single, childless people was once again highlighted in the study” *
*”The Dutch tax wedge fell from 36.9% to 35.1%, while in Germany, it fell from 49.3% in 2019 to 47.9%.”*
*”By comparison, the Netherlands sits at a tax wedge of 35.1%,”*
*”While countries like Sweden and Denmark also have quite high taxes, they manage to offer better services in terms of health care, higher pensions and free child care, among others.”*
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We still have the highest taxes for OECD countries:
*”For single, childless people, the tax wedge in Belgium is 52.7%.”* based on an average wage.
**58.9% tax !**
*”Those earning more than the average wage are even worse off. A single person working at a high wage (167% of the average wage) loses €58.9 of every €100 paid by the employer.”*
Which in practice includes divorced parents where one parent is has the child registered, who gets child allowance, and the other parent still has to pay for the children’s upbringing. The government will not let children be registered even if they live 50/50. This is certainly true in my case. I pay a monthly amount for my child, yet we still go halves on everything the Ex pays for, but nothing that I pay for. There is no legal framework that that works in practice. e.g I have lost healthcare insurance from the mutual for my chid because parentA registered them with a Maison Medicale 100kms away. So, I pay the full 29 euros for doctor and nothing is re-imbursed by the mutule. Yet top tax rate because they class me for single. We are hit with 52.7% and still have to bring up our children and get nothing reimbursed from the mutule. We get nothing from the government. How about they look into this? Nope. They want the tax.
*”The continued social discrimination in Belgium against single, childless people was once again highlighted in the study” *
*”The Dutch tax wedge fell from 36.9% to 35.1%, while in Germany, it fell from 49.3% in 2019 to 47.9%.”*
*”By comparison, the Netherlands sits at a tax wedge of 35.1%,”*
*”While countries like Sweden and Denmark also have quite high taxes, they manage to offer better services in terms of health care, higher pensions and free child care, among others.”*
Which party will lower taxed?
Rant Over.