Originally Posted by
skyboy83
Hey guys. If someone have a local contract in Romania and get paid 6500 gross as a SFO in Wizz it takes almost 3500 net according to some free tax calculators. What about if get paid through confair? Is he obligated to pay social or health insurance in Romania.
IIRC Romania has recently changed it's tax and social contributions policy, so that the whole burden is on the employee. In most countries you pay some part of social contribution while the employer pays the rest - so the "gross" salary is not really your gross because your employer still pays something on top of that to the government. Now you see the full contribution, that's what makes the tax seem so high.
To offset that, Wizz has introduced a 1.45 salary multiplier for local romanian contract - in the end they spend (roughly) the same amount on you, the state gets (roughly) the same amount of money and you get (roughly) the same net salary as before (roughly, because we all know every such change is an opportunity to skimp a few cents off the employee).
If you choose the contractor route, you will not be paying those high taxes, but at the same time the 1.45 multiplier won't apply to you, so your gross will be smaller, net should be similiar