The UCM is sounding the alarm for taxation on work in Belgium: “Belgian employees cost their employer”

The Union of Medium Classes (UCM) reacted on Friday in a statement following the last OECD report. The latter reported that Belgium remains world champion of taxation on work. The UCM warns that Belgium cannot remain permanently competitive with such high labor taxation

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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) specified Wednesday that for a single employee without children receiving an average salary, the difference between the total cost for the employer and the net salary received – called “tax corner” – reached in Belgium 52.6%. No other OECD country exceeds the 50%mark. Germany (47.9%) and France (47.2%) follow far behind, while the OECD average stood at 34.9%.

“This situation is not new, but it worsens. Belgian employees cost their employer dearly and see too low a share of their salary. For SMEs and self -employed, this represents a major obstacle to hiring, entrepreneurial initiative, competitiveness and growth,” details the UCM.

A reform is requested

The union of the middle classes emphasizes the importance of “in -depth reform of the tax and social system” and has reaffirmed its claims: lightening the workloads to relaunch local employment and facilitate recruitments; simplify taxation and make it more fair; And to breathe breathe with employers, by mastering the salary cost without penalizing workers.