Originally Posted by
KT1988
@Flytster: Well you have to pay the legal tax of course but you are free to choose where you live as a pilot. For example as a pilot I can live in Poland and pay the minimal ZUS for companies + 19 % linear tax for companies (I am not yet done with my fATPL + FI but I own a plane that I rent) instead of for example 47 % tax in Norway and extra tax on everything you can imagine is fun to have (like a car) in your daily life + tax if you own more than about 150 000 Euro (because you keep investing your money for example instead of spending it wildly on unnecessary things). And its not barely legal but 100 % legal to live wherever you wish to live in Europe if you are a pilot and you have to pay the tax in the country where your company is active. As a pilot you are actually flying everywhere where the airline want you to so some people can probably have an official base in Switzerland and where they do actually live depends on where they are actually performing their work for the airline. As for me the Polish system is currently good enough after living in Norway its almost as a tax free heaven. As for social security, pension, health insurance.... you get much more "bang for your buck" if you buy private insurance and keep saving your money in some stock fund or keep investing in aircraft, flats, homes for rent literally anything (except for risky shares or scams) will be much much much better than government programs that are invented to make you pay more than you get back as pension.
PS. You do not make a deal with society, over 50 % of society do not even vote. You are being governed by politicians and as a pilot in addition to having the best job in the world (Its almost not a job (maybe except the paperwork bit) because its fun and enjoyable so its almost as being paid to do something you love) you are able to say "I do not like this government so I move somewhere where the government suit me". Try that with any other land based job (other than being a stock trader) without knowing the local language to where you wish to move.
I struggle to see or understand what you are trying to say. As it does seems you lack some basic skills in grammar. Maybe some punctuation, commas and space between the lines would help. I recommend you study this before sending out your CV.
First of all you pay taxes in the country you live, not necessary in the country you work, in the case you are commuting. Double tax treaty.
See how great a society is if you break your foot, or loose your medical, temporary unfit etc., and how much Wizz will pay you a month? You might believe you are invincible when you are 18 or 23, but sooner or later you will most likely want to have a family, you probably will have a few children, who you want to send to school to get a good education. You will buy your car in Poland, send them to a Polish school, and when you get sick with Wizz, your pay will be at best 25% of your normal salary. As they don't have such great benefits as you might have in Norway.
Now I am getting a slight sense of where you come from, what would your opportunities have been if your parents have had the same views and acted on them? Obviously you are paying less tax, you are making less money, there are less things in your society to support you if your life does not work as you expect it to.
Norway is not a Socialist country, I suggest you teach yourself the definition of a socialist country, because you have no idea.
You have had free education, free health care, and live in a society well advanced of Poland, no offence towards the Polish, however you can not compare lifestyle, quality of life in Poland and Norway.
You have had benefits in Norway, that people from Poland can only dream of, and trust me I have traveled extensively in Poland, and I would not move there just because I would be paying less tax.
You are talking from extremely selfish view, with no idea of the reality. As you are studying your ATPL theory at the moment, and you believe your dream job, will always be this for you, I can assure you after 12 months with Wizz, your views will have changed 180 degrees.
I have seen multiple guys after working between 6 - 12 months with Wizz, leave aviation, to never return to flying again, both FO's and Captains.
How much do you think it will cost you every month if you was going to pay for private healthcare, private insurance for both health care and sickpay, private schools for your children, maybe private fire services too? Police?
You have no idea of how lucky you are, equally you have no idea of what you are talking about.
Wizz is a company that stretches every legal limit they can, and they will even go beyond the legal limits when and if they can get away with it. And they prey on naive ignorant people like you to do it.
I say to all Wizz is a good start to get experience, but don't get stuck there, as I assure you it will kill your love for the job very quickly.
I have to admit the last part of your statement makes you sound like you might only be 14, fjortis, do you think only Pilots can live in different countries then where they come from?