OECD Revenue Statistics 2017: The Czech Republic ranked 18th out of 35 OECD countries in terms of the tax-to-GDP ratio in 2016, up one place

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16th January 2018

The OECD’s annual Revenue Statistics report found that the tax-to-GDP ratio in the Czech Republic increased by 0.7 percentage points, from 33.3% in 2015 to 34.0% in 2016.

The tax-to-GDP ratio in the Czech Republic has increased from 32.4% in 2000 to 34.0% in 2016. Over the same period, the OECD average in 2016 was slightly above that in 2000 (34.3% compared with 33.9%). During that period the highest tax-to-GDP ratio in the Czech Republic was 34.7% in 2004, with the lowest being 32.3% in 2009, OECD wrote.

The Czech Republic ranked 18th out of 35 OECD countries in terms of the tax-to-GDP ratio in 2016, up one place compared with 2015. Australia and Japan are unable to provide provisional 2016 data, therefore their latest 2015 data are presented in this analysis.