29/10/2015 - This stocktaking report profiles the tax treatment of funded private pension plans across all OECD and EU countries. The information refers to 2015 or the latest year with available data and covers all types of funded private pension plans in each country.

The stocktaking report is accompanied by country profiles that provide detailed information on the tax treatment of funded private pension plans in all OECD and EU countries.

Countries covered - Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States.

This report is a contribution to a long-term project to determine the cost effectiveness of tax and other financial incentives to promote private pension savings and assess the most efficient way of using public money to increase savings for retirement, retirement income and replacement rates.