Taxes and tax-like payments

Latest release:
Tax ratio 44.1 per cent in 2012
11 Jul 2013
The tax ratio was 44.1 in 2012 and increased for the second year in a row. The tax ratio describes the ratio of taxes and compulsory social security contributions to gross domestic product. In 2011, the tax ratio was 43.7 per cent. The accrual of taxes and compulsory social security contributions grew by 3.0 per cent in 2012. The total accrual amounted to EUR 84.9 billion. The tax ratio for 2012 went up by 0.5 percentage points because GDP became revised from the preliminary data released in March. The data on the accrual of taxes did not become significantly revised from previously released data. These data are based on the revised national accounts data for 2012.

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Statistical releases will not be issued in English from these statistics in 2013.