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> Anywhere in Germany? Our pre-tax income is pre-pre-taxed. Before your employer pays out your wage, they are taxed for it as well.

What? No. I'm an employer in Germany and I can tell you that's wrong.

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Then you should really have a look at either your payroll or this simple calculator: https://www.steuertipps.de/service/rechner/brutto-netto-geha...

People frequently hold remarkably strong opinions on a system they appear to have very little understanding about.

Yea, and it's the guy above ironically. If I add my net here [1], I can see that I land pretty much exactly at 49.7% of my wage being deducted from when my employer pays me to where it lands on my bank account.

[1]: https://www.steuertipps.de/service/rechner/brutto-netto-geha...

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