The average worker in Estonia faced a tax burden on labour income (tax wedge) of 39.9% in 2013 compared with the OECD average of 35.9%. Estonia was ranked 15 of the 34 OECD member countries in this respect. Some examples of the results reflected in the Overview charts for Estonia are:
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The data used for the average and marginal tax wedges is taken directly from the "Tax Wedge Decomposition' dataset within the online OECD data warehouse: DotStat. The dataset includes the breakdown of the average and marginal tax wedges into five separate components as percentage of total labour cost:
You can access the full datasets by using the following links: Explanations and definitions of the terminology used throughout the publication, or as indicators within figures and charts, can be found within the Methodology (PDF), or within the annex tables: A.1. Terminology, and A.2 Characteristics of taxpayers. |
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