The effective tax rate of personal income tax in francophone countries

This work is focused on effective tax rates of the personal income tax from a microeconomic perspective. The work analyses francophone countries, namely Belgium, France, Canada, Luxembourg, Greece, Switzerland and also the Czech Republic. The first chapter defines elements of the personal income tax, social insurance contributions and the effective tax rate along with examples of its calculation. The second chapter describes the personal income tax and social insurance contributions in chosen countries and calculates the effective tax rate using collected information. The effective tax rate is calculated for six sample taxpayers with different levels of average wage. The final chapter compares, according to sample taxpayers, effective tax rates including only income tax or social security contributions payed by employees, and at the end the effective tax rate as a whole