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Countries with the highest tax rates in the world

The OECD – in full, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development – is an association of 35 high-income countries committed to democracy and market economy. Since 2000, it has published annual reports on taxes paid for wages in all of its member states. The latest such report, published this May, looks back on the state of wage taxation in 2016.

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Top 10 OECD countries by highest personal tax rate:

Belgium - 40.7%
Germany - 39.7%
Denmark - 36.2%
Hungary - 33.5%
Slovenia - 33.4%
Austria - 31.9%
Italy - 31.1%
Luxembourg - 31%
Finland - 30.8%
Netherlands - 30.4%

source: howmuch.net