Ljubljana, 23 May (STA) - The share of taxes in total labour costs in Slovenia has dropped a bit, from 40% in 2017 to 39.8% in 2018, show figures released by national statisticians on Thursday.
This means that 39.8% of the pay earned by a person in paid employment who earned 67% of the average gross wage went for taxes and 60.2% for their net pay.
The Statistics Office (SURS) explains that for this purpose a person in paid employment means a worker who receives an average pay in industry and services.
But when a person moves from unemployment to employment, the tax burden was at 90.5% for a single person without children, down 0.5% over the year before.
When a single unemployed person got a job, their net income increased by a mere 9.5% of gross earnings, which SURS termed the "unemployment trap".
This indicator shows the difference in a person's net income at moving from unemployment to employment due to moving into higher tax brackets and paying higher social contributions than during unemployment.