Wednesday, January 26, 2011

I WAS LOOKING FOR EFFECTIVE CORPORATE RATES

but these figures from the OECD for the year 2008 are also instructive.  The numbers are the total tax revenues as a percentage of GDP.   I highlighted Germany because it did pretty good, certainly better than the U.S., during the Great Recession.


Denmark 1 48.2
Sweden 46.3
Belgium 44.2
Italy 43.3
France 1 43.2
Finland 43.1
Austria1 42.7
Norway 42.6
Hungary 40.2
Netherlands 39.1
Slovenia 37.2
Germany 2 37.0
Iceland 36.8
Czech Republic 36.0
United Kingdom 35.7
Luxembourg 35.5
Portugal 35.2
Poland 34.3
Israel 3 33.8
New Zealand 33.7
Spain 1 33.3
Greece 32.6
Canada 32.3
Slovak Republic 29.3
Switzerland 29.1
Ireland 28.8
Japan 28.1
Australia 27.1
Korea 26.5
United States 26.1
Turkey 24.2
Chile 22.5
Mexico 21.0

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