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Total tax burden is a vague term. They could easily mean total Federal tax burden since they're comparing countries. This NY Times article pegs the total U.S.
by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Total tax burden is a vague term. They could easily mean total Federal tax burden since they're comparing countries. This NY Times article pegs the total U.S. Federal tax burden at 20.7% which makes the numbers you quote seem dubious
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/how-much-americans-actually-pay-in-taxes/ http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/how-much-americ...
- yequalsx 15y agoTax burden is not a vague term. They define it in the charts. Total tax burden is the percent of GDP that is tax revenue. The link you gave talks about effective tax rate. This is very much different than the percent of GDP collected in taxes.