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Taxes on goods and services (% value added of industry and services) International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, and World Bank and OECD value added estimates.
The visualization provides an overview of revenues from the taxation of goods and services over recent decades. The estimates account for sales taxes, value-added taxes, and excise duties; and are expressed as a share of GDP.
Today’s modern equivalent is the value-added tax, or VAT. It has become a major source of revenue for the more than 160 countries that impose it, raising, on average, over 30 percent of their total tax take. (A notable exception is the United States, which doesn’t have a VAT.)
Tax revenue (% of GDP) data from the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and OECD GDP estimates.
7 maj 2019 · Does the design of a tax matter for growth? Assembling a novel dataset for 30 OECD countries over the 1970-2016 period, this paper examines whether the value added tax (VAT) may have different effects on long-run growth depending on whether it is raised through the standard rate or through C-efficiency (a measure of the departure of the VAT ...
It presents a unique set of detailed and internationally comparable tax data in a common format for all OECD countries from 1965 onwards. This year’s edition includes a special feature on tax revenue buoyancy in OECD countries.
26 lip 2021 · This paper examines whether, in the context of OECD countries, a revenue-neutral increase in the value-added tax (VAT), offset by a fall in income taxes, may have different effects on long-run growth depending on how the VAT is raised.
