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The OECD publishes an extensive comparison of tax burdens on wage income in various OECD countries: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/44/2/1942506.xls http://www.oec
by DrJokepu 16y ago
The OECD publishes an extensive comparison of tax burdens on wage income in various OECD countries: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/44/2/1942506.xls http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/44/2/1942506.xls
Some key numbers, at average wage: US 34.4%, UK 38.8%, Germany 63.3%, France 52.0%, Japan 34.2%, Hungary 71.5%
- Ardit20 16y agoYou get free health care in the UK though. Also, you pay much less for university, well for now anyway. It used to be free only 4 years ago!
- DrJokepu 16y agoHealth care, etc. are indeed covered by taxes here in the UK, but the bottom line adds up the same anyway. Obviously, the services different countries "provide" for your income tax vary by country; some countries provide "free" healthcare, some offer high (perhaps sometimes too high) unemployment benefits, while others decide to wage wars instead to protect their interests overseas.