Tax to GDP ratios

Austria is in the upper half of OECD countries ranked in order of tax to GDP ratio at 42.0% in 2010 and 42.1% in 2011.  The 2010 figure was significantly above the OECD average of 33.8% and Austria’s tax to GDP ratio has been well above the OECD figure in every year since 2000.

Figure 1: Tax revenue as percentage of GDP 2000 to latest available data

Tax structures

The main observations for Austria are:

• Revenue from personal and corporate income taxes has been fairly stable between 2000 and 2011 at 12.2% of GDP in both years and was slightly above the OECD average of 11.3% in 2010.

• Revenue from Social security contributions and payroll taxes has also been stable and in 2010 was 17.4%, almost double the OECD average of 9.5%.

• Taxes on goods and services declined from 12.3% to 11.7% of GDP over the period but were higher than the OECD average of 11.0% of GDP in 2010.

• Property tax revenues were 0.5% of GDP in 2010, less than one third of the OECD average.

Figure 2: Tax revenue main headings as percentage of GDP, 2000, 2007, 2010 , 2011

• OECD averages are not available for 2011 as 5 OECD countries have not provided data for that year.
• More comparative information about OECD member countries is contained in the tables linked within the following webpages:
  • Tax revenue trends: tax ratios changes between 2007 and 2011
  • Tax revenue trends: tax ratios changes between 1965 and 2010
  • Tax structures: latest position (2010)
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