this is from 2007:
http://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1768/umfrage/durchschnittlicher-einkommensteuersatz-pro-steuerpflichtigem-nach-bundeslaendern/the average income tax was less then 20%.
what your posted from wikipedia is indeed correct, but it just explains the tax bracket of our income tax law.
@social taxation
its only 20% if you take your pension insurance into it. you are free to to care yourself about a future pension.
it is just law because we in germany dont want to care of people that dont do something for their pension before they get old and cant work.
that is why either you have to pay in a state controlled pension fund as a tax or pay into a private owned pension fund.
@vat
i explained earlier there are two tax brackets for vat, one is 7% and the other is 19%.
guess what 19% are? right, luxury articles.
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why are you mad anonymint?
82%... come on.... and that without vat...
and where did i tell you that you have a derangend mind?
and btw. im not socialist, im pretty liberal.