Its like this in Germany (tax wise): (http://i.imgur.com/6oiGx5B.png) - the lower blue curve is the amount of tax you pay. The x-axis is the amount of money you get (on which you have to pay tax) and the y-axis is the tax percentage. This is for self-employed people only, regular employees will deduct 1000 Euros from the amount ("Arbeitnehmerpauschbetrag"). Other amounts such as the health insurance can also be deducted.
One side note: the link you have given also calculates health, pension and unemployment insurances. This might be confused with tax, but one should be make it clear that self-employed people don't have to have pension and unemployment insurance and health insurance is much higher than for regular employees. [But one can (in practice) get around paying for health insurance, but no sensible person will do that. - Nobody enforces that you have a health insurance if you are self employed.]
I am referring to the whole shebang. From what I know, pension and unemployment insurances are mandatory. Am I wrong?
Now, with pension and unemployment insurances, will the tax bracket be higher than 30% for 100k ?
You are right, no one sensible would go without the health care portion. But some people (moi) don't trust pension with governments. (Argentina, Hungary.. etc)
Now, if those things are mandatory, how much would be left of a 70k salary? Still on the 30%?
For employees, pension and unemployment are mandatory, correct.
Don't mix up tax and health/pension/unemployment because (that was the starting point of this thread) one can believe that if you say 50% tax these insurances might come on top of that.
Otherwise, if you want to know how much you will have on your bank account after getting 70k/year, your link was very good AFAICS. You will most likely get something like 40k out of it.
