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What you say might be true on the day this tax is canceled, but if you like a few years later, you realize:

a) it was worth 13,000 SEK for your employer to employ you

b) you're only getting 10,000 SEK.

c) you ask for a 3,000 SEK raise, and get it.

So, not immediately, but after a while it will reach the steady state that I described.

The bottom line is: it's arithmetics; It doesn't matter to the employer which line item the 3,000 SEK are listed under, whether "employment tax" or "salary"; it comes out of their pocket either way. It shouldn't matter to you either in the grand scheme of thing. Employment is a reasonably efficient market in the time frame of a few years, and you will realize, and then demand, and get, a salary of 13,000 SEK.

The transient is going to be weird. But in the steady state - it doesn't matter which lines appear in your pay stub and which do not.



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