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This annual publication provides information on tax levels and tax structures in OECD countries. It was prepared under the auspices of the Working Party on Tax Policy Analysis and Tax Statistics of the Committee on Fiscal Affairs and is published under the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD.
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The tax burden continued to rise in OECD countries in 2014, increasing by 0.2 percentage points to an average of 34.4% of gross domestic product (GDP). This increase continues the recent upward trend as the OECD average tax burden has increased in every year since 2009 when the ratio was 32.7%. The 2014 figure is the highest ever recorded OECD average tax to GDP ratio since the OECD began measuring the tax burden in 1965. The tax burden is measured by taking the total tax revenues received as a percentage of GDP.
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This annual Report presents detailed internationally comparable data on tax revenues of OECD countries for all levels of government. The latest edition provides outturn (i.e. final) data on tax revenues in 1965-2014. In addition, provisional estimates of tax revenues in 2014 are included for almost all OECD countries.
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In all of the following tables the symbol (..) indicates not available/or not applicable. The main series in this volume cover the years 1965 to 2013. Figures referring to 1966-79, 1981-89, 1991-99, 2001-06 and 2010 have been omitted because of lack of space. A complete series is, however, available on line. Data for 1955 and 1960 (for nineteen OECD countries) are provided in part V of the 1998 edition of this Report.
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The tax data presented in this part of the Report have been attributed to the sub-sectors of general government identified in section J of the Interpretative guide (see Annex A) and the attribution criteria used are those set out in that guide.
The column “supranational” reports the customs duties collected by the twenty-one EU member states on behalf of the European Union.
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