- Revenue Statistics 2023 provides data on tax revenues of OECD countries for all levels of government.
- The latest edition includes final data on tax revenues from 1965 to 2021, as well as provisional estimates for 2022.
- Taxes are defined as compulsory, unrequited payments to the government or a supranational authority.
- Taxes are classified based on their base, such as income and profits, social security contributions, payroll and workforce, property, goods and services, and others.
- The tax-to-GDP ratio for OECD countries in 2022 decreased by 0.15 percentage points compared to 2021.
- The decrease in the tax-to-GDP ratio was the first since 2019 and followed two consecutive years of increases due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- In 2022, the tax-to-GDP ratio decreased in 21 countries, increased in 14 countries, and remained the same in one country.
- Denmark had the largest decline in the tax-to-GDP ratio, while the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, and Türkiye also recorded significant declines.
- The data for 2022 is preliminary and the OECD average is calculated based on the unweighted average percentage change in the 36 countries providing data for that year.
- The 2016 OECD average tax-to-GDP ratio includes one-off revenues from stability contributions in Iceland.
Source: oecd.org
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