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10.03.05, 09:19
1) Najwyzsze stopy % w OECD
Okazuje sie tez, ze pod rzadami liberalow Australia ma najwyzsze w OECD stopy
procentowe (dane za rok 2004, ale niewiele sie roznia od poczatku roku 2005):
Australia 5.4%
Japonia 0.0%
Niemcy 2.1%
NZ 4.3%
Polska 5.2%
UE 2.2% (srednio)
UK 4.0%
USA 1.6%
2) Najwyzsze (po Islandii) opodatkowanie plac w OECD
A teraz okazuje sie tez, ze Australia ma jedne z najwyzszych w OECD podatki
od wynagrodzen!
theage.com.au/news/Business/Tax-levels-falling-
Costello/2005/03/10/1110417595228.html?oneclick=true
... It follows an OECD report which showed the tax grab by the government
increasing sharply through 2003-04, at a rate only just behind that of
Iceland.
The report also found Australia, along with several other nations, had very
high effective marginal tax rates.
oraz:
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12497889%
255E601,00.html
PM bucks world with tax hikes by David Uren, Economics correspondent
March 10, 2005
JOHN Howard and Peter Costello have markedly increased the tax burden on
Australians over the past eight years, in striking contrast to the sustained
period of tax relief enjoyed by taxpayers in most nations around the world.
The Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development, one of the world's
leading economic policy organisations, has found Australia stands almost
alone in raising taxes over the past eight years – a period in which most
other developed countries have been cutting. Iceland is the only other nation
to buck the trend.
Putting further pressure on the Howard Government to pursue more taxation
reform, the OECD annual review of the way countries tax wages shows that the
poorest people in Australia have suffered the biggest average tax increases.
The average fall in the tax burden in developed countries over the past eight
years has been about 2 per cent.
In Australia, the average share of income swallowed by tax has increased by
between 1.4 per cent – for a single person with no children earning about
$90,000, two thirds higher than the average wage of $53,000 – to 9 per cent –
for a single parent with two children earning about $35,000, one third lower
than the average wage.
The OECD report shows that the increase in tax has been worst for those who
have a mixture of welfare payments and earned income.
The single parent with two children earning $35,000 has seen the tax take go
up from 11.8 per cent to 20.7 per cent of their income in eight years.
In the US, such a person would have received a net tax credit of 2.6 per cent
in 1996 and a tax credit of 11 per cent last year. In England, a single
parent would have paid 11.5 per cent of their income in tax eight years ago,
but would today receive a credit of 17.3 per cent.
The Government has struggled to fend off claims from Labor that it is a high-
taxing government, and is facing pressure from within its own ranks to lower
marginal tax rates.
The increase in the tax burden comes despite the cuts in marginal tax rates
in 2000, when the GST was introduced, and several increases in tax
thresholds.
However, bracket creep has been pushing people into higher tax brackets.
A spokesman for the Treasurer last night defended the Government's
approach: "As the report acknowledges itself, the results for Australia do
not allow for change in delivery of assistance from the tax system to
payments like the family benefit. The OECD report also does not include the
most recent tax cuts and increases in family payments."
Reserve Bank governor Ian Macfarlane recently recommended that the Government
reconsider the income tax credit system used in the US and England to ease
the problem of high effective marginal tax rates.
The OECD report underlines the problem of high effective marginal tax rates,
showing that Australia is second only to Britain in the tax rates it levies
on families.
The marginal tax rate reaches 61.5 per cent for each partner for a married
couple with two children where one partner earns the average wage and the
other earns two-thirds of the average wage.
For a couple with two children where one partner earns the average wage and
the other stays at home, every additional dollar of income earned gets taxed
at 51.5 per cent.
The OECD said the increase in the average tax burden in Australia is partly
explained by the shift of some payments from the tax system to the Department
of Family and Community Services.
The OECD says that for most developed countries, the tax burden has been
reduced, whether you look at just income tax, income tax and benefits, or the
total cost of hiring someone.
