OECD publishes report Taxing Wages 2026: The Progressivity of Labour Taxation in OECD Countries. Effective tax rates on labour income increased across OECD countries in 2025, especially for households with children
Effective tax rates on labour income increased across OECD countries in 2025, especially for households with children, according to a new OECD report ‘Taxing Wages 2026: The Progressivity of Labour Taxation in OECD Countries’ released on Wednesday April 22, 2026. This has been announced with a news release on the website of the OECD (click here to go to the report on the website of the OECD). This annual publication ...
Taxing Wages 2023: Double blow for workers as inflation drives real wages down and labour taxes up
Tuesday April 25, 2023, the report ‘Taxing Wages 2023 - Indexation of Labour Taxation and Benefits in OECD Countries’ was released. Taxing Wages 2023 enables cross-country comparisons of labour costs and the overall tax and benefit position across the OECD. It analyses income tax paid by employees, cash benefits received by in-work families and the associated social security contributions and payroll taxes made by employees and employers, which are key factors ...
Labour taxation rebounding as global economy recovers from COVID-19 pandemic
Effective tax rates on labour rebounded in 2021 as the global economy recovered and many countries began withdrawing or scaling back measures implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new OECD report ‘Taxing Wages 2022’. This has been announced on 6 May 2022 with a news release on the website of the OECD. Further from the news release: Taxing Wages 2022 provides cross-country comparative data on income tax ...
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 ...