As usual, these articles are complete garbage. I can only assume at this point that they wilfully conflate the highest tax brackets with the effective tax rate since that makes for a more dramatic story.<p>Yes Sweden has a tax bracket that would result in north of 50% tax. For the part of your income that qualifies for that bracket. A significant part of the population doesn’t even qualify for that bracket and for those that do it’s a much smaller part of their total income.<p>If you earn so much that the dominating tax bracket for you is the highest one, good. System works as intended.