William ChopsWestfield wrote:

>> http://www.greaterzuricharea.ch/content/05/downloads/ 
>> oecd_tax_revenue2003.pdf
>> (tax revenue as percentage of GDP, in 2003):
> 
> An interesting way of expressing the statistic, I guess.
>
>> USA 25%
>>
> I wonder if it includes state taxes (~10% for me in Ca), local taxes,
> social security (~11%), and medicare (~2%) ?

Good question. It probably includes all federal taxes, but it may not
include state and local taxes -- which it should include, otherwise the
comparison is close to useless. I've seen other sites stating similar
numbers, which all seem to come from the same OECD numbers. I don't know
where they did their data get from.

Gerhard

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