>It seems like there is an easy workaround - don't take your salary until afterwards, and/or pay yourself in advance now.

Or, get your salary reduced to just under the insane tax limit. Take the difference in some other way(Stocks, Real estate, Gold, vacation funded by the company etc etc).

Except the difference that should be paid to you won't be paid in a technical definition of a salary. It can be paid as a reward, bonus or some new incentive system.

Works like a charm.