Jurgen Beliën
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Jurgen Beliën
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Web developer & Eurorack enthusiast based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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I wish this was true! The Netherlands also has a regressive tax system in practice: that figure applies to labor but the top 0,01% parks their income in companies with a way way lower tax.
Full source in Dutch: www.cpb.nl/system/files...
Taxation levels as percentage of their income in The Netherlands showing that the bottom 90% pay around 32.5% tax mostly divided between labor (box 1) and social security fees. The top 10% sees a in increase to around 36% with around 25% point of that is taxation on labor, as one would expect in a progressive tax system. For the top 1% however, that labor part drops again and around 10% point is labeled “vpb”, ie. corporate tax, due to the use of personal holding companies et cetera. The share of corporate tax grows for the top 0.1% to around 17% and the top 0.01% only pay around 2% in labor taxes and over 20% in corporate taxes, giving them the lowest tax level of the group at around 27.5%
July 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM