Taxes and tax-like payments

Producer:	Statistics Finland
Data:	Latest release: Tax revenue grew in 2012 01 Mar 2013 The tax ratio was 43.6 per cent in 2012. The tax ratio describes the ratio of taxes and compulsory social security contributions to gross domestic product. The tax ratio increased by 0.1 percentage points from the previous year. The accrual of taxes and compulsory social security contributions grew by 3.0 per cent or EUR 2.5 billion. In 2011, the tax revenue grew by 8.4 per cent. The total revenue for 2012 amounted to EUR 84.8 billion. These data are based on the preliminary national accounts data for 2012. Next release: 11 Jul 2013
Description:	The statistics on taxes and tax-like payments contain data on the taxes and compulsory social security contributions central and local governments and social security funds collect annually. In addition, the statistics include data on the tax-like payments collected in Finland for the European Union. The key parameter figure in the statistics on taxes and tax-like payments is the total tax ratio depicting the annual accrual of all compulsory tax-like payments relative to the gross domestic product of the same time period. Total tax ratio is one of the commonest measures used in international comparisons of public sector sizes. Read full description >>>
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Change:	Methodological and time series revision in national accounts 15 Mar 2006

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Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Taxes and tax-like payments [e-publication].
Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 9.5.2013].
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