Why don't construction prices go down?

For me it’s just under 30 percent.

Oh.
My salary is publicly accessible, so anyone can check it themselves. A13 NRW St. 6

With an annual gross of 60,500, I pay 22.5% income tax.

If you pay 30% income tax, then you have a 90k annual gross? Is that correct? Be specific.

I am also still waiting for the concrete answers to the other concrete questions:

- Who decides from what percentage taxes become invasive?

- How high is this percentage?

Where are your answers, ?

Marginal tax rate vs. average tax rate, Mr. Buchsbaum.

Due to the whole discussion, I absolutely had to take a look at my payslip. I currently pay exactly 10.83% income tax in tax class 3. In tax class 1, it would be 18.62%. Looking at the end of my payslip, I am left with a total of 68.63% net from my gross. So a total of 31.37% deductions.

Due to the whole discussion, I absolutely had to take a look at my payslip. I currently pay exactly 10.83% income tax in tax class 3. In tax class 1 it would be 18.62%. Looking at the end of my payslip, I am left with a total of 68.63% net from my gross. So 31.37% total deductions.

Now don’t you come up with real numbers too. Otherwise would become unbelievable... or explain to us what salary gives him the 30% income tax. We would probably want that too. But there’s no answer to concrete questions.

Didn't you write something about "I am a poor craftsman"?

Well, I am too. My income from renting and leasing, as well as my capital gains, are basically a nice to have. They are not necessarily earned income.

And as you surely know, the dumbest farmers have the biggest potatoes. That's just how life sometimes is.

Who decides when the state becomes overbearing with its taxes and levies?

The economic laws. So if, despite permanent tax increases, actual revenues decline. If the performers refuse to perform. If the economy shrinks, investments fail to materialize.

We are currently experiencing this in the discussion about tax relief for foreign skilled workers. Understandably, they avoid Germany. And now they want to lure them here with reduced tax rates. A clear sign of too high a tax burden.

When taxes on earned income rise, you can observe that employees who can afford it reduce their working hours and take more leisure time. Conversely, tax cuts on earned income create incentives to increase one's work effort and working hours. That is where the skilled labor shortage comes from, not, as often portrayed, from a lack of workers.
We Germans need to work more, you hear nowadays from politics. Gladly, if it would actually pay off.

It's also called the Laffer Curve. A reduction of income tax would lead to an increase in tax revenues. Of course, less undeclared work, more overtime, and incentives to work at all. Currently, we are experiencing the opposite.

The tax-free allowance should be at least doubled to relieve lower incomes. Expenses, especially for the welfare state, must be drastically reduced. There is no way around it.

When I look at the end of my payslip, I am left with a total of 68.63% net from my gross. So 31.37% deductions in total.

That's nice for you. But it says nothing. You could have child allowances included. Add the employer's contributions on top. Then with his average income, you are also well over 40 percent tax and contributions.