Taxes Around the World: What Happens to Your Pay?

"They take half your money in tax!" – but half of what? In episode 3 of our tax series, Robo follows the money from what a job costs an employer to what actually reaches the worker's bank account. We explain the tax wedge with a simple made-up example, compare ten OECD countries for 2025 (single worker, no children, average wage, % of total labour cost), and show why the number changes with the household, what it leaves out (like Switzerland's compulsory health-insurance premiums), what the payments fund – and why VAT and the cost of living are a separate story.