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News & Events
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17-Oct-2007
The average tax burden in OECD countries, measured as the ratio of tax to gross domestic product (GDP), is back up to the same levels as in 2000 after a brief reduction between 2001 and 2004, according to figures in the latest edition of the OECD’s annual Revenue Statistics publication.
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12-Mar-2007
This new publication describes and analyses various tax-preferred savings accounts, excluding pension-related accounts, in a cross-section of 11 OECD countries.
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28-Feb-2007
The OECD’s annual compendium of tax data shows little change in levels of taxation on wage earners in different OECD countries, with Turkey, Poland and France levying the most on a single-earner married couple with two children on average earnings and Ireland, New Zealand and Iceland taking the least.
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25-Sep-2006
Updated information is now avaible on Taxation of Corporate and Capital Income and Taxation of Wage Income.
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20-Jul-2006
Tax reform is an on-going process, with tax systems continuously adopting to reflect changing economic, social and political circumstances. Over the last two decades, almost all OECD countries have undertaken structural changes in their tax system which have altered the way these systems function and their economic and social impacts. This document focuses on Denmark, Italy, the Slovak Republic and Turkey who recently presented tax reforms at the meetings of Working Party N° 2 on Tax Policy Analysis and Tax Statistics
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13-Oct-2005
The ways in which governments raise money through taxation continue to vary widely across the OECD, with Denmark collecting almost 60% of its revenues from personal and corporate taxes and France less than 25%, according to data in the latest edition of the OECD’s annual Revenue Statistics.
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OECD and the Italian Government announce the 2005 Alessandro di Battista Fellowship
26-May-2005
The Italian Government has generously established a fellowship in memory of the young Italian economist Alessandro Di Battista, who came from the Italian Ministry of Finance to work on tax analysis at the OECD and prematurely passed away in 2001. The fellowship is designed to allow a young Italian economist to be seconded to the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, to receive training, conduct research and acquire experience at the OECD.
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Events
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on 16-May-2005
The main purpose was to provide an open debate regarding the alternatives of tax reform in different areas: corporate and wealth taxation, personal income tax and indirect taxes and green taxation. A selected group of experts from the OECD, the Spanish Tax Administration and the academic world took part in the debate, providing an international perspective and a multidisciplinary approach which are both essential for the designing of any tax reform. See presentation (also in Spanish) by Jeffrey Owens of the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration.
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on 31-Mar-2005
Speech and presentation by Jeffrey Owens, Head of the OECD's Centre for Tax Policy and Administration at the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform. This conference took place in San Francisco on 31 March 2005.
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Taxing Wages provides unique information on income tax paid by workers and social security contributions levied on employees and their employers in OECD countries. Special Feature: Tax Reforms and Tax Burdens 2000-2006.
Taxing Wages 2006/2007: 2007 Edition
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