Tax and levy burden of wages in the Czech Republic

Abstract

The article deals with evaluating the influence of the tax and levy burden of wages on employment and tax revenue. The high tax and levy burden on wages is not favourable for the economy. The analysis results show that the increase in the tax and levy burden of wages has a negative effect on employment. When evaluating the effect of the tax and levy burden on tax revenue, the effect is different from the scope of used deductions. However, the long-term problem of the Czech Republic in comparison with other countries is not the tax burden on labour, but the related levy burden, which increases the price of labour and thus has a negative effect on the labour market from its transnational perspective. The analysis confirms that the Czech Republic remains among the countries with a high levy burden. To achieve the paper's objectives, methods of description, comparison, analysis, synthesis, and regression and correlation analyses are used. The added value and uniqueness of this article is, among other things, the fact that these indicators - effective, respectively, implicit tax rates on labour are calculated depending on the distribution of wages.