View Oecd Tax Rates By Country PNG. A comparison of tax rates by countries is difficult and somewhat subjective, as tax laws in most countries are extremely complex and the tax burden falls differently on different groups in each. These rates apply only to taxes levied by the central national government.
An important distinction when talking about tax rates is to distinguish between the marginal rate and the effective tax rate. The oecd recently published its annual report on income taxes in oecd countries. Tax revenue (% of gdp).
Tax revenue (% of gdp).
Data updated in february 2020 including tax data up to 2018. The average tax rate in the world is 31.37%, the european average is 32% and the oecd average is 41.58%. Oecd tax database and oecd economic outlook database. The relatively large population of the united states when compared with other oecd countries in conjunction with the country's extremely high incarceration rate means that the united states houses more than one half.