FACTOID # 3: People in Germany, Belgium, Hungary and Sweden have to pay almost half their salaries in tax.
 
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Taxation Statistics > Contribution by poorest 30% (most recent) by country

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Rank   Countries  Amount  (top to bottom)   
#1   Denmark: 14.1% 
#2   Netherlands: 11.7% 
#3   Sweden: 11% 
#4   Norway: 10.2% 
#5   Germany: 10% 
#6   Finland: 9.8% 
#7   France: 8.7% 
#8   Italy: 6.7% 
#9   United States: 6.3% 
#10   Canada: 6.2% 
#11   United Kingdom: 6% 
#12   Belgium: 3.9% 
#13   Australia: 3.7% 
#14   Ireland: 3.3% 
Weighted average: 8.0%  


DEFINITION: Proportion of taxes paid by the broad income group - poorest 30% (Data is for mid-1990s). Taxes include all direct income taxes, including employee social security contributions. Income groups were built on the basis of final disposable adjusted income.

SOURCE: Michael F. Forster, 'Trends and Driving Factors in Income Distribution and Poverty in the OECD Area', OECD Labour Market and Social Policy Occasional Paper 42

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Russ
19th July 2005
I am sure that if you included sales and excise taxes, the share that the poorest of us pay would jump dramatically.

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