New OECD-report: Tax policy is playing a key role in promoting economic recovery and responding to the energy price shock
Tax policy is playing a critical role as countries seek to promote economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and respond to the impact of rapid increases in energy prices, according to a new OECD report Tax Policy Reforms 2022. This has been announced with a news release on the website of the OECD. Tax Policy Reforms 2022 describes recent tax reforms across 71 countries and jurisdictions, including all OECD members ...
New OECD data provides a baseline for measuring the impact of COVID-19 on labour taxes
Labour taxes on the average worker across OECD countries continued to decline for the sixth consecutive year in 2019, according to a new OECD report. This was announced with a press release on the website of the OECD in guidance of the release of the report “Taxing Wages 2020”. From the press release: Taxing Wages 2020 shows that the “tax wedge” – total taxes on labour costs paid by employees ...
OECD-report Revenue Statistics 2019 released: Tax revenues have reached a plateau
Tax revenues in advanced economies reached a plateau during 2018, with almost no change seen since 2017, according to new OECD research. This ends the trend of annual increases in the tax-to-GDP ratio seen since the financial crisis. The 2019 edition of the OECD’s annual Revenue Statistics publication shows that the OECD average tax-to-GDP ratio was 34.3% in 2018, virtually unchanged since the 34.2% in 2017. The release of the report was ...
Reforms in a few countries drive a decline in average OECD labour taxes
Income tax and social security contributions declined slightly for the average worker across the OECD in 2018, driven by major reforms in a handful of countries, according to a new OECD report. This was announced by the OECD with a press release dated 12 April 2019. Taxing Wages 2019 shows that the “tax wedge” – total taxes on labour costs paid by employees and employers, minus family benefits, as a ...
Tax revenues continue increasing as the tax mix shifts further towards corporate and consumption taxes
Tax revenues in advanced economies have continued to increase, with taxes on companies and personal consumption representing an increasing share of total tax revenues, according to new OECD research. This was announced in a press release dated 5 December 2018 as published on the website of the OECD. From the press release: The 2018 edition of the OECD’s annual Revenue Statistics publication shows that the OECD average tax-to-GDP ratio rose ...
Assessing tax levels and the tax mix in OECD countries: Revenue Statistics 2018 & Consumption Tax Trends 2018 to launch on Wednesday 5 December 2018
The OECD has announced the launch of two reports to be published on Wednesday 5 December providing internationally comparable statistics and analysis designed to inform the tax policy debate: the report Revenue Statistics 2018 and the report Consumption Tax Trends 2018. From the press release as published on the website of the OECD on 28 November 2018: Tax systems across the OECD countries are converging towards higher tax levels and ...
Tax reforms accelerating with push to lower corporate tax rates
Countries have used recent tax reforms to lower taxes on businesses and individuals, with a view to boosting investment, consumption and labour market participation, continuing a trend that started a couple of years ago, according to a new report from the OECD. This has been expressed by the OECD in a press release on its website covering the release on 5 September 2018 of the report "Tax Policy Reforms 2018; ...
Social security contributions and consumption taxes give way to personal income taxes, as corporate income taxes fail to recover
Personal income taxes are playing an increasingly significant role in the tax mix as revenues from social security contributions and consumption taxes fall, and corporate tax collections remain low, according to a new OECD report. For more information, click here to go to the press release referred to above dated 23 November 2017 on the website of the OECD. CFN-artikelnr. 20171124-7 BRONDOCUMENT BRON: www.oecd.org Land/gebiedsdeel: OECD Betreft: Social security contributions, ...