The official rate means nothing, the effective rate is everything. One way to get that is to look at tax revenue as percentage of GDP: https://en.wikipedia.org

The official rate means nothing, the effective rate is everything. One way to get that is to look at tax revenue as percentage of GDP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenue_as_percentage_of_GDP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_reven... For OECD countries only: http://ctj.org/ctjreports/2013/04/the_us_continues_to_be_one_of_the_least_taxed_of_the_developed_countries.php http://ctj.org/ctjreports/2013/04/the_us_continues_to_be_one...