Revenue Statistics 2021
The Initial Impact of COVID-19 on OECD Tax Revenues
Data on government sector receipts, and on taxes in particular, are basic inputs to most structural economic descriptions and economic analyses and are increasingly used in economic comparisons. This annual publication gives a conceptual framework to define which government receipts should be regarded as taxes. It presents a unique set of detailed and internationally comparable tax data in a common format for all OECD countries from 1965 onwards.
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Executive Summary
In 2020, the average OECD tax-to-GDP ratio rose by 0.1 percentage points to 33.5%, against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although nominal tax revenues fell in most OECD countries, the falls in countries’ GDP were often greater, resulting in a small increase in the average tax-to-GDP ratio.
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