International corporate tax rates 2001 and 2008

Day 22 of 28 Days of Tax Data

From Australia’s future Tax System

Some interesting data from a report on Australia’s Tax system. Both graphs are displaying statutory corporate tax rate (i.e. the tax rate that is imposed on taxable income of corporation). Notice that the average of  OECD countries has decreased from 32.5% (2001) to 26.6% (2008)

Statutory corporate tax rate 2001

Statutory corporate tax rate 2008

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