Tax Policy Analysis

Tax policy analysis consists of the identification and evaluation of the effects of tax policies that have occurred in the past or might be considered for the future. Its primary purpose is to assist policy makers in designing tax policies that are suited to their objectives. The OECD Tax Database compares tax statistics for member countries. Read more.

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Rising Tax Revenues: A key to economic development in Latin American countries

25-Jan-2012

Increased domestic resource mobilization is widely accepted as crucial for countries to successfully meet the challenges of development and achieve higher living standards for all their people.

Tax revenues stabilise in OECD countries in 2010

29-Nov-2011

OECD countries acknowledge that taxes must play a role in the process of fiscal consolidation as they battle unprecedented budget deficits. New OECD data in the annual Revenue Statistics publication show that the majority of OECD governments have stabilised their tax to GDP, with the average ratio moving up slightly from 33.8% in 2009 to 33.9%  in 2010. 

Tax reform can create jobs

12-Oct-2011

High unemployment rates, in the wake of the financial and economic crisis, have governments scrambling to create jobs.  A new OECD report suggests that well-targeted tax reforms can encourage employers to hire more people and the jobless to look for employment.

Tax & Environment: Reforming fossil-fuel subsidies to improve the economy and the environment

04-Oct-2011

Governments and taxpayers spent about half a trillion dollars last year supporting the production and consumption of fossil fuels. Removing inefficient subsidies would raise national revenues and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, according to OECD and IEA analyses.

Taxing Wages: Average tax burden on workers’ earnings starts to rise again, putting pressure on real after-tax pay

10-May-2011

The average tax and social security burdens on employment incomes rose in most countries in 2010, reversing a trend toward declining tax burdens seen in previous years, according to a new OECD report. In most cases, though, any rise reported was small.

Revenue Statistics 2010: Tax revenues fall in OECD countries

15-Dec-2010

Tax revenues fell in cash terms during 2009 in most OECD countries, driven downward by declining economic activity and tax cuts aimed at cushioning the effects of the recession that followed the financial crisis. OECD Revenue Statistics 2010 provides the latest comparable data and analysis, explains tax trends in all OECD countries, and looks back over tax revenues since 1965.

Expert Workshop on Estimating Support to Fossil Fuels, 18–19 November 2010

from 18-Nov-2010 to 19-Nov-2010

Reforming fossil-fuel subsidies is of vital importance for meeting the global challenge of climate change. The OECD therefore organised a workshop to discuss how to identify and measure subsidies and aspects of tax systems that effectively support fossil fuels.

Experts from China and OECD conclude international seminar on environmental taxation

29-Oct-2010

Beijing, 26-27 October 2010 – Tax and environment experts have concluded two days of sharing experience about how environmental tax reform can contribute to green growth.

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