Remote’s guide to employing inIceland
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- Capital City
Reykjavík
- Currency
Icelandic krona (kr, ISK)
- Languages
Icelandic
- Population size
364,134
Services available in this country:
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Taxes in Iceland
Learn how employment taxes and statutory fees affect your payroll and your employees’ paychecks in Iceland.
11.50% | Mandatory Pension Fund |
2.00% | Supplementary (optional) Pension Fund (the employee can elect to supplement their pension by either 2% or 4%, and the employer then is obliged to match this with 2% in either case) |
6.10% | Social security contribution (this contribution is calculation on the Gross pay + Mandatory Pension Fund + Supplementary Pension fund amounts) |
1.55% | Union fee |
0.10% | Rehabilitation Fund |
10.17% | Holiday Allowance - once annually (this value is a minimum 10.17% of annual gross pay and can go up to 13.04% of annual gross pay, depending on the employees tenure with the employer) |