Taxing Wages 2015
Taxing Wages provides unique information on the taxes paid on wages in OECD countries. It covers personal income taxes and social security contributions paid by employees; social security contributions and payroll taxes paid by employers and cash benefits paid by in-work families. The purpose is to illustrate how these taxes and benefits are calculated in each member country and to examine how they impact on household incomes. The results also enable quantitative cross-country comparisons of labour cost levels and the overall tax and benefit position of single persons and families on different levels of earnings.
The publication shows this information for eight household types which vary by income level and household composition and the results reported include the marginal and average tax burdens for one and two earner families and the total labour costs of employers. These data are widely used in academic research and in the preparation and evaluation of social and economic policy making.
Taxing Wages 2015 includes a special feature entitled: ‘Modelling the tax burden on labour income in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa.'
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Graphical exposition of the 2014 estimated tax burden
The chapter presents a graphical exposition of the estimated tax burdens on labour income in 2014 for gross wage earnings ranging from 50% to 250% of the average wage. These are illustrated in separate graphs for each OECD member country and for four family types: single taxpayers without children; single parents with two children; one-earner married couples without children and one-earner married couples with two children.The graphs are divided in two sets showing the average and the marginal tax wedge components as percentage of total labour costs (central and local income taxes; employee and employer social security contributions and family benefits). The graphs also show the net personal average and marginal tax rates.
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