{"id":127,"date":"2010-12-15T18:42:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T01:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/?p=127"},"modified":"2010-12-15T18:49:01","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T01:49:01","slug":"where-taxes-hits-the-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Where taxes hit the most"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/document\/49\/0,3343,en_21571361_44315115_46737201_1_1_1_1,00.html\">updated report<\/a> on Tax Revenues has been published from OECD.<br \/>\nSome good news: taxes are decreasing a bit (<em>\u201cdriven downward by declining economic activity and tax cuts\u201d<\/em>), in average; but these good news are not consistent across the world though, and 8 countries in Western Europe are above 40%:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Denmark has the highest tax burden, closely followed by Sweden. The Danish tax burden was 48.2% in 2009, closely followed by Sweden at 46.4%.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Italy and Norway also have tax burdens over 40%. <\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Mexico, with a 17.5% tax to GDP ratio, and Chile, with 18.2%, have the lowest tax to GDP ratios amongst OECD countries, followed by the U.S. 24.0% and Turkey 24.6%.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The tax burden declined more than 5 percentage points between 2007 and 2009 in Spain from 37.3% to 30.7%, Iceland from 40.6% to 34.1%, and Chile from 24.0% to 18.2%. <\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Greece, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States showed declines of 3-4 percentage points from 2007 \u2013 2009.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Definitely, taxes are not the same for everyone!<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new and updated report on Tax Revenues has been published from OECD. Some good news: taxes are decreasing a bit (\u201cdriven downward by declining economic activity and tax cuts\u201d), in average; but these good news are not consistent across the world though, and 8 countries in Western Europe are above 40%: Denmark has the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/?p=127\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,12,27,10,6],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-landing","tag-competitve-advantage","tag-growth","tag-opportunity","tag-tax","tag-us","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}