Actually, I looked into it more, in my country, the Netherlands, and over all it is split: 55% individual contributions, 45% business contributions. Income tax

Actually, I looked into it more, in my country, the Netherlands, and over all it is split: 55% individual contributions, 45% business contributions. Income taxes are just plain income taxes. There are also social security contributions, part of which is paid by the employer. I know it is not necessarily appropriate to say that that is a tax the employer has to pay, but I counted it as such. Transaction taxes, I counted as a "business tax". VAT, I counted as individual taxation, mostly because it is regressive and hits the poor, i.e. non business owners disproportionately. So my earlier claim was incorrect. It is more of a 50-50 split. http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/taxation/data/revenue-statistics/netherlands_data-00247-en http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/taxation/data/revenue-statistic...