It’s true that our gaze tends to go directly downwards: when we receive our pay slip, we look very concretely at what we were paid, perhaps what we paid in tax if we is subject to income tax, more rarely probably the small lines. The government finds these small lines “excessively complex” and would like to reduce their number from around fifty to around thirty, we are told. The echoes.
This would involve grouping certain contribution or payment lines by “theme” rather than by organization to, possibly, make everything clearer. The government is in any case working on this in the middle of a whole battery of “simplification” measures, especially for bosses, and a little for employees.
A new gas plant?
Governments have been trying for years to make pay slips “more readable”. The echoes indicate that there have already been five attempts over more than twenty-five years.
These little lines are however important to see what we pay in contributions for unemployment, retirement, health… Some on the left fear that this simplification is only the preparation of the ground to reduce these contributions and ultimately reduce the social rights and public services.
Please note, however, that companies will have to keep the details of the small lines grouped together because employees will still be able to request them. Would it be a simplification or a new gas plant?