Thus, the tax burden, calculated as the ratio of tax revenues to GDP, reached 48.9% in Denmark in 2007. In Sweden, this figure was 48.2%. The lowest tax burden last year was borne by residents of Mexico (20.5%) and Turkey (23.7%).
Between 2006 and 2007, the tax burden increased the most in Hungary (from 37.1% to 39.3%), Korea (from 26.8% to 28.7%), and Italy (from 42.1% to 43.3%). Taxes decreased the most for residents of the Netherlands – from 39.3% to 38%.
As Lenta.ru notes, earlier the OECD predicted for its member countries a peculiar 'year of anti-records,' including an increase in inflation and a decrease in GDP growth. In March, the organization lowered its forecast for the total GDP growth of OECD countries in 2008 to below 2 percent.