France Overtakes Denmark for Top Spot in Most Taxes as Percent of GDP

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[ameribbean expat]

The tax collection blue ribbon now goes to France. Congratulations!

Vs the OECD average of 34.2%, French taxes amount to 46.2% of GDP. Denmark, Sweden, Italy, and Greece round out the top five.

[ameribbean expat]

More details at link.I

[E. Pluribus Unum]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenue_to_GDP_ratio

Country Tax as % of GDP[1]

Algeria 64.07
Timor-Leste 61.5[13]
Norway 54.8 [4]
Finland 54.2 [4]
Denmark 50.8[6]
Sweden 49.8 [4]
Belgium 47.9[2]
France 47.9[8]
Cuba 44.8
Germany 44.5
Italy 43.5
Lesotho 42.9
Austria 42.7
Bosnia and Herzegovina 41.2
Iceland 40.4
Netherlands 39.8
Swaziland 39.8
Slovenia 39.3
Cyprus 39.2
Hungary 39.1
Greece 39.0[8]
Spain 37.3
Portugal 37.0
Israel 36.8
Croatia 36.7
Luxembourg 36.5
Czech Republic 36.3
Japan 35.9 [4]
European Union[7] 35.7
Botswana 35.2
Malta 35.2
OECD[10] 34.8
New Zealand 34.5
Brazil 34.4
United Kingdom 34.4
Serbia 34.1
Moldova 33.8
Mongolia 33.8
Poland 33.8
Korea, South 33.6 [4]
Barbados 32.6
Estonia 32.3
Seychelles 32.0
Guyana 31.9
Canada 31.7 [4]
Ireland 30.8
Latvia 30.4
Dominica 30.3
Albania 30.26
Slovakia 29.5
Macedonia 29.3
Namibia 28.8
Ukraine 28.1
Montenegro 28.0
Trinidad and Tobago 28.0
Australia 27.8
Bulgaria 27.8[3]
Switzerland 27.8 [12]
Romania 27.7[6]
Jamaica 27.2
Zimbabwe 27.2
Bolivia 27.0
Tonga 27.0
South Africa 26.9
Kazakhstan 26.8
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 26.5
United States 26.0[15]
Samoa 25.5
Venezuela 25.0
Argentina 24.95
Turkey 24.9[14]
Solomon Islands 24.7
Papua New Guinea 24.5
Belarus 24.2
Mexico 23.7 [4]
Nepal 23.1[9]
Saint Lucia 23.1
Uruguay 23.1
Cape Verde 23.0
Morocco 22.3
Suriname 22.1
Fiji 21.8
Georgia 21.7
Belize 21.6
Kyrgyzstan 21.4
Jordan 21.1
Chile 21.0
Costa Rica 21.0
Uzbekistan 21.0
Lithuania 20.9
Ghana 20.8
Kiribati 20.7
Malawi 20.7
Maldives 20.5
Turkmenistan 20.2
China(2015)[5] 20.1
Macau, China 20.1
Djibouti 20.0
Russia 19.5
Senegal 19.2
Mauritius 19.0
Gambia 18.9
Bahamas, The 18.7
Kenya 18.4
Cameroon 18.2
Peru 18.0
Azerbaijan 17.8
Nicaragua 17.8
Vanuatu 17.8
Burundi 17.4
São Tomé and Príncipe 17.4
Thailand 17.0
India 16.8
Tajikistan 16.5
Colombia 16.1
Zambia 16.1
Egypt 15.8
Honduras 15.6
Malaysia 15.5
Togo 15.5
Benin 15.4
Mauritania 15.4
Côte d’Ivoire 15.3
Mali 15.3
Tunisia 14.9
Lebanon 14.4
Philippines 14.4
Armenia 14.2
Singapore 14.2
Uganda 14.2
Rwanda 14.1
Vietnam 13.8
Mozambique 13.4
El Salvador 13.3
Congo, Democratic Republic of 13.2
Ecuador 13.2
Liberia 13.2
Hong Kong 13.0
Taiwan 13.0[11]
Federated States of Micronesia 12.3
Comoros 12.0
Dominican Republic 12.0
Indonesia 12.0
Paraguay 12.0
Tanzania 12.0
Guatemala 11.9
Ethiopia 11.6
Sri Lanka 11.6
Burkina Faso 11.5
Guinea-Bissau 11.5
Niger 11.0
Pakistan 11.0
Laos 10.8
Bhutan 10.7
Madagascar 10.7
Syria 10.7
Panama 10.6
Sierra Leone 10.5
Angola 10.33
Gabon 10.3
Haiti 9.4
Bangladesh 8.5
Guinea 8.2
Cambodia 8.0
Yemen 7.1
Afghanistan 6.4
Sudan 6.3
Iran 6.1
Nigeria 6.1
Congo, Republic of 5.9
Saudi Arabia 5.3
Burma 4.9
Bahrain 4.8
Chad 4.2
Libya 2.7
Qatar 2.2
Oman 2.0
Equatorial Guinea 1.7
Kuwait 1.5
United Arab Emirates 1.4

[mosesdapoet]

Where is California in all this ?

[I want the USA back]

High taxes and plenty of m*slims all around town to beat you up, rape you and kill you.

[Jim Noble]

Of the top five, two are unimaginable hellholes, and three are among the most pleasant places on Earth to live or to visit.

Perhaps economic determinism is a false ideology?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Those three may have been that way before they started taking in hordes of Mooslims, but the Mooslims are no busy overwhemlming the system..

[Jim Noble]

Denmark, Norway, and Finland have not followed Sweden, France, and Germany down the road of culture change to facilitate Muslim immigration. In fact Denmark is one of the least receptive places in the West to Muslim cultural aggression.

But my post was about taxes. Peaceful, happy, monocultural societies made up of European people can accommodate any kind of tax policy, from ultra-low to ultra-high, as long as the decisions are made by some sort of consensus method such as elections to a Legislature.

In short - Timor Leste is not a shithole because of tax policy, and Norway wil never become a shithole, however high their taxes are.

[blam]

They’ve got to pay for those do-nothing Muslim immigrants somehow.

[arrogantsob]

That settles it, I am going to have to move to the United Arab Emirates.