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Comment by varispeed | Hacker News Reader

> Does it count tax for all the employees?

Why do you think it is okay for a corporation to appropriate the tax employees pay as theirs? Employee pays this tax, not the corporation.

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They are probably referring to the fact that 1/2 the payroll tax is paid by the employer. The employee does not pay this tax, and it is directly paid by the employer for every employee.

That's not how payroll taxes work in the US. The employee only pays a fraction of their taxes.

Well it is tax money that is sent to the government and that is taken from the total amount of money that the company receives for the products it provides. If we are talking about some moral side of the issue (as the articles tries to, if I'm not mistaken), then why wouldn't we count it?

I'm not saying that the company shouldn't pay a direct tax on their profit, but that I want to know the real number counting everything. Focusing on some fraction of that number can be misleading, especially when the editors try to distill it into a short title, with possible agendas no less.

That is true that in some countries the employee income is taxed at source, but it doesn't mean that the tax is not paid by the employee just because the company sends it on his or hers behalf. It is happening this way because governments don't trust people that they would send that money each month. What employees pay should be a completely separated equation, as this is what employee makes with their own hard work, not the corporation.

You have taxes deducted from your salary but the company pays an additional payroll tax on top of this, outside of your salary.

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