[lumberjack]

Actually, I looked into it more, in my country, the Netherlands, and over all it is split: 55% individual contributions, 45% business contributions.

Income taxes are just plain income taxes. There are also social security contributions, part of which is paid by the employer. I know it is not necessarily appropriate to say that that is a tax the employer has to pay, but I counted it as such. Transaction taxes, I counted as a "business tax". VAT, I counted as individual taxation, mostly because it is regressive and hits the poor, i.e. non business owners disproportionately.

So my earlier claim was incorrect. It is more of a 50-50 split.

http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/taxation/data/revenue-statistic...

[weddpros]

"social security contributions.... tax the employer has to pay": that's a great lie, that employers pay those, not employees.

For employers, it's one amount of money paid for hiring an employee: employers don't really care what's salary, and what's taxes. In France, employees don't even get 50% of their gross salary: there are more social security contributions than salary.

Employees should really want to reduce social security contributions, instead of thinking "my boss pays for it".