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Taxation Trends Report 2017 Edition

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Taxation Trends Report

2017 Edition

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Overall EU tax revenues levelled off …

Tax revenues (including social contributions) as % of GDP

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Composition of taxes varies a lot

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Rise in capital and consumption taxes, fall in labour taxes

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Share of consumption and capital taxes grew from 2009 – 2015

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Environmental taxes: little movement in revenues since 2012

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Stability of average VAT standard rate in 2017

EU-28 average rate

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… but most Member States have increased VAT rates since 2000

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Few changes in VAT rates since 2015

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Top PIT rate stable in 2017

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Top corporate income tax rates continue to edge downwards …

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… but since 2000 almost all Member States have significantly lowered top corporate rates …

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… although the frequency of CIT rate changes is less than it was pre-crisis

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Main messages

• Revenues• - EU tax revenues continued to grow in most Member States

• - From 2009 to 2015 the share of consumption and capital taxes in total taxation increased

• - Environmental tax revenues have moved rather little since 2012• Rates• - VAT rates remained stable in 2017, but rate changes are far fewer

since 2015• - Average top personal income tax rates also stable in 2017• - Average top corporate rates continued to edge downwards in 2017,

but rates have dropped much more slowly since the crisis