Was ist die Staatsverschuldung, woher kommt es und wer profitiert davon?

>The most important source of income for social security is the contributions of employees and employers.

>**Part of your gross wage – in most cases 13.07 percent – goes to social security. Those employee contributions have remained relatively constant in recent decades.**

>**The employer places the employer contribution on top of this. However, that part has fallen systematically in recent decades.** Whereas in the late 90s the employer’s contributions still amounted to approximately 34 percent of the wage mass, that figure today is almost 10 percent lower.

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>**That is the result of a series of exemptions and the so-called tax shift. In 2014, then Minister of Finance Johan Van Overtveldt (N-VA)** reduced the patronal contributions to work, as a result of which social security loses billions in income annually.

Decreasing employers‘ social security contributions to about 25% is/was nothing out of the ordinary though. That is the [EU average](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Hourly_labour_costs#Share_of_non-wage_costs_highest_in_Sweden_and_France).