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2009 Corporate Income Taxes As A % of GDP (Original Post)
applegrove
Dec 2012
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I have no idea how it happened. I was on photobucket. Only one image link was copied.
applegrove
Dec 2012
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applegrove
(118,759 posts)1. Don't know why it posted double. But I'll leave it.
geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)2. why the same image twice?
applegrove
(118,759 posts)3. I have no idea how it happened. I was on photobucket. Only one image link was copied.
The problem must be at the downloading from my computer to photobucket level. I'll leave it.
geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)5. Yeah. Weird web thingies.
All I can see is that there are two instances of the img element.
No biggy.
Nice chart - no surprises there.
I wonder what Iceland's rate looks like after they nationalized the investment banks.
Now look at this -
This article lists countries by total tax revenue as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) for the listed countries.
List of countries by tax revenue as percentage of GDP
And this -
The United States appears to come in at about 25%. So if corporate taxes make up 1% of that, then the US citizens must make up most of the rest of it.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,210 posts)4. Yeah, our effective tax rate isn't that high either
only about 13% just about the lowest of all industrialized nations. Lowering the corporate rate doesn't really stimulate the economy either, at least it didn't for Canada.