How many hours in your shift?

[Big J]

6 minutes ago, Ty Korrigan said:

 

 What is your tax rate over there for self employed?

 Ours is around 50% of profit in social charges with income tax being very variable depending on whether you are married and the number of children in the household.

Some single people in our trade with no kids pay around 65% combined social charges and income tax.

 

 

France does have, I believe, the highest tax rate in Europe.

 

I lose about 41% of my total profit in tax and social charges. I have very few costs these days as I just contract myself out as a machine operator. 

 

Sounds like a lot, and it's a fair chunk, but then the rates of pay are quite a lot higher here, and you get a tonne back from the state. 

 

For example. with our two daughters, we have 22 weeks each of parental leave for us to take before they are 12. That equates to about £19k tax free over the next four years. 

 

If we ever do any work on the house, we get 30% of the cost of the labour back from the state. Green subsidies on things like solar panels are 50%.

 

I've just applied for an employed position as a wheel loader driver at the larger sawmill that I used to work at. With the antisocial hours allowance, the pay is as good as anything I would get self employed, plus they even factor in 60hrs of paid leave a year just for things like medical appointments. If you don't use it, they'll pay you for it, or you can take it as holiday, meaning you get 9 weeks paid leave per year.

 

We don't live in an affluent part of Sweden, but everyone has enough to get by without struggling here. It does contrast where we used to live in Devon and even just outside Edinburgh.

[AHPP]

12 minutes ago, Big J said:

If we ever do any work on the house, we get 30% of the cost of the labour back from the state.

That must be abused to the high heavens! Fake work that never happens, bank transfer one way, cash back the other.

[Big J]

43 minutes ago, AHPP said:

That must be abused to the high heavens! Fake work that never happens, bank transfer one way, cash back the other.

 

I don't think so. It's all documented and there isn't the same resistance to paying tax here as in the UK. I may be wrong though.

[Ty Korrigan]

2 hours ago, AHPP said:

That must be abused to the high heavens! Fake work that never happens, bank transfer one way, cash back the other.

The tax credit system in France is rotten with fraud. 

 

[Sviatoslav Tulin]

I actually work max 6 hours, plus driving 2to3 hours  plus 1 hour loading unloading ! Some days I manage to spend all energy in 3 to 4 hours working very fast usually hedge cutting 😞  rarely  I work very long hours like 9 or 10 but it’s usually grass cutting strumming rubbish collection spraying weeds and so on (maintenance )! 

[Bob_z_l]

I put 7 because that is what I'm doing currently. Long may it last.

With the Telecoms thing, when I worked in London on a 4 on 4 off. They were 12 hour shifts but my day also included 1.5 hours each way travel. For months it really was sleep work sleep work...then rest. Repeat.

Even 5on 2 off with 8 hr shifts you added another 3hrs travel. 

 

Glad I'm out of it.

 

Just got to keep going till I can retire. then it'll be 3 hour days of hardcore pottering. :-)

 

[AHPP]

Paid travel?

[Bob_z_l]

5 hours ago, AHPP said:

Paid travel?

If you mean me. No, when on the rail (the company I worked for was a contractor) I paid my own travel to and from work. Bit Sh1t but I signed up knowing it. 

 

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, Bob_z_l said:

If you mean me. No, when on the rail (the company I worked for was a contractor) I paid my own travel to and from work. Bit Sh1t but I signed up knowing it. 

 

Unlucky, I had a rail warrant from SWT when I subbed to them but the schedules were so inconvenient I only used it for a few trips to London and one to Exeter and carried on with a van the rest of the time. I never even used it for a jolly.

[Bob_z_l]

No such luck.

Couldn't even drive my little VW to work in the end on nights. Despite being £30 tax it was a frugal (70-85mpg) little diesel and fell foul of Sultan Khan's ULEZ rules. Final nail for me. 

Onwards and upwards. 
Now drive the company diesel on their time into town. All works out in the end. :-)