Total tax rate (% of profit) - Business environment - Private Sector & Trade - World Development Indicators

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Total tax rate is the total amount of taxes payable by businesses (except for labor taxes) after accounting for deductions and exemptions as a percentage of profit.

Rank	Country	Value
Total tax rate (% of profit) - Business environment - Private Sector & Trade - World Development Indicators (2009)
1	Democratic Republic of the Congo	322
2	Gambia	292.40
3	Burundi	278.60
4	Sierra Leone	235.60
5	Central African Republic	203.80
6	Argentina	108.10
7	Belarus	99.70
8	Uzbekistan	94.90
9	Mauritania	86.10
10	Tajikistan	85.90
11	Eritrea	84.50
12	Bolivia	80
13	Colombia	78.70
14	China	78.50
15	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	75.94
16	Low income	74.38
17	Benin	73.30
18	Palau	73
19	Algeria	72
20	Brazil	69.20
21	Italy	68.40
22	Sub-Saharan Africa	67.63
23	France	65.80
24	Republic of the Congo	65.50
25	Marshall Islands	64.90
26	India	64.70
27	Puerto Rico	64.70
28	Least developed countries: UN classification	64.60
29	Sri Lanka	63.70
30	Nicaragua	63.20
31	Tunisia	62.80
32	Venezuela	61.10
33	Chad	60.90
34	Equatorial Guinea	59.50
35	Kyrgyzstan	59.40
36	Micronesia	58.70
37	Hungary	57.50
38	Belgium	57.30
39	Ukraine	57.20
40	Spain	56.90
41	Japan	55.70
42	Austria	55.50
43	Costa Rica	54.80
44	Sweden	54.60
45	Angola	53.20
46	Togo	52.70
47	St. Kitts and Nevis	52.70
48	Mali	52.10
49	Low & middle income	51.50
50	Jamaica	51.30
51	Mexico	51
52	Cameroon	50.50
53	Panama	50.10
54	Guinea	49.90
55	Cape Verde	49.70
56	Kenya	49.70
57	Philippines	49.40
58	Estonia	49.10
59	Slovakia	48.60
60	Latin America & Caribbean	48.54
61	Honduras	48.30
62	Russia	48.30
63	Australia	48
64	Yemen	47.80
65	Finland	47.70
66	Greece	47.40
67	Sao Tome and Principe	47.20
68	Czech Republic	47.20
69	Bahamas	47
70	Uruguay	46.70
71	Niger	46.50
72	United States	46.30
73	Senegal	46
74	Guinea-Bissau	45.90
75	Euro area	45.89
76	Grenada	45.30
77	Tanzania	45.20
78	Albania	44.90
79	Germany	44.90
80	Burkina Faso	44.90
81	Gabon	44.70
82	Ivory Coast	44.70
83	Romania	44.60
84	Turkey	44.50
85	High income: OECD	44.49
86	Europe & Central Asia	44.48
87	Upper middle income	44.34
88	Iran	44.20
89	Seychelles	44.10
90	Liberia	43.70
91	Canada	43.60
92	Egypt	43
93	Portugal	42.90
94	Syria	42.90
95	Lithuania	42.70
96	Poland	42.50
97	Papua New Guinea	42.30
98	Middle income	41.97
99	Morocco	41.70
100	Middle East & North Africa	41.63
101	Norway	41.60
102	Antigua and Barbuda	41.50
103	Fiji	41.20
104	Comoros	41.10
105	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	41
106	Guatemala	40.90
107	Azerbaijan	40.90
108	Bhutan	40.60
109	Peru	40.30
110	Lower middle income	40.13
111	Vietnam	40.10
112	Haiti	40.10
113	South Asia	39.99
114	Zimbabwe	39.40
115	Netherlands	39.30
116	Madagascar	39.20
117	High income	39.19
118	Dominican Republic	39
119	Guyana	38.90
120	Nepal	38.80
121	Djibouti	38.70
122	East Asia & Pacific	37.97
123	Indonesia	37.60
124	Slovenia	37.50
125	Thailand	37.20
126	Dominica	37
127	Swaziland	36.60
128	Afghanistan	36.40
129	Solomon Islands	36.30
130	Armenia	36.20
131	Sudan	36.10
132	United Kingdom	35.90
133	Kazakhstan	35.90
134	Uganda	35.70
135	El Salvador	35
136	Bangladesh	35
137	Paraguay	35
138	Ecuador	34.90
139	St. Lucia	34.40
140	Mozambique	34.30
141	Malaysia	34.20
142	Serbia	34
143	Laos	33.70
144	Trinidad and Tobago	33.10
145	Latvia	33
146	New Zealand	32.80
147	Ghana	32.70
148	Israel	32.60
149	Croatia	32.50
150	Nigeria	32.20
151	High income: nonOECD	32.05
152	North Korea	31.90
153	South Korea	31.90
154	Kiribati	31.80
155	Pakistan	31.60
156	Bulgaria	31.40
157	Rwanda	31.30
158	Moldova	31.10
159	Ethiopia	31.10
160	Jordan	31.10
161	Brunei Darussalam	30.30
162	Lebanon	30.20
163	South Africa	30.20
164	Switzerland	29.70
165	Denmark	29.20
166	Belize	28.90
167	Montenegro	28.90
168	Cyprus	28.80
169	Iraq	28.40
170	Kosovo	28.30
171	Suriname	27.90
172	Singapore	27.80
173	Tonga	27.50
174	Bosnia and Herzegovina	27.10
175	Ireland	26.50
176	Malawi	25.80
177	Chile	25.30
178	Iceland	25
179	Hong Kong	24.20
180	Mauritius	22.90
181	Mongolia	22.80
182	Cambodia	22.70
183	Oman	21.60
184	Luxembourg	20.90
185	Samoa	18.90
186	Lesotho	18.50
187	Botswana	17.10
188	West Bank and Gaza	16.80
189	Macedonia	16.40
190	Zambia	16.10
191	Kuwait	15.50
192	Georgia	15.30
193	Bahrain	15
194	Saudi Arabia	14.50
195	United Arab Emirates	14.10
196	Qatar	11.30
197	Namibia	9.60
198	Maldives	9.10
199	Vanuatu	8.40
200	Timor-Leste	0.20

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