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Singaporeans are scared of taxes ... so a review of taxes here. USA, Canada, Australia are lower tax countries.
Source: OECD (2007a)
Australia's tax to GDP ratio is the eighth lowest in the OECD and substantially below the OECD average of 36.2 per cent.
The gap between Australia's tax to GDP ratio and the OECD average has remained relatively constant at around 5.5 percentage points of GDP since 1965. Compared with the nine most comparable OECD countries, Australia's tax to GDP ratio is about average. However, two of the nine countries with lower tax to GDP ratios than Australia also run significant fiscal deficits (the United States and Japan).

Source: OECD (2007a)
Australia's tax to GDP ratio is the eighth lowest in the OECD and substantially below the OECD average of 36.2 per cent.
The gap between Australia's tax to GDP ratio and the OECD average has remained relatively constant at around 5.5 percentage points of GDP since 1965. Compared with the nine most comparable OECD countries, Australia's tax to GDP ratio is about average. However, two of the nine countries with lower tax to GDP ratios than Australia also run significant fiscal deficits (the United States and Japan).