{"id": 816284, "name": "Taxes including social contributions (as a share of GDP)", "unit": "% of GDP", "createdAt": "2023-11-09T17:39:46.000Z", "updatedAt": "2025-06-23T14:53:30.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "1980-2022", "datasetId": 6294, "shortUnit": "%", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "tax_inc_sc", "catalogPath": "grapher/unu_wider/2023-11-01/government_revenue_dataset/government_revenue_dataset#tax_inc_sc", "descriptionFromProducer": "The variable Taxes captures tax collected regardless of sources (i.e., unless otherwise defined, this includes resource-based taxes). These follow the definition of taxes found in both the IMF\u2019 Government Finance Statistics Manual (GFSM) and OECD Revenue Statistics Interpretive Guide as \u2018compulsory, unrequited \u2026\u2019 payments to the government (IMF 2014; OECD 2020).\n\nThe Taxes variables presents aggregate indicators that capture all tax revenue as defined above. Resource taxes typically present taxes levied on natural resource extraction, although differ across territories. Resource Taxes are not (systematically) defined or captured in the OECD Revenue Statistics, and not captured at all in the IMF\u2019s GFS, thus do not have a separate code for either publication.\n\nSocial contributions include both compulsory and voluntary social insurance contributions from employers, employees, and the self-employed.", "descriptionProcessing": "The source provides their data with caution notes, classifying them as follows:\n\n  1. Accuracy, quality or comparability of data questionable.\n  2. Un-excluded resource revenues/taxes are significant but cannot be isolated from total revenue/taxes.\n  3. Un-excluded resource revenue/taxes are marginal but non-negligible and cannot be isolated from total revenue/taxes.\n  4. Inconsistencies with social contributions.\n\nWe have excluded from our dataset the observations flagged with caution note 1.\n", "type": "float", "grapherConfigIdETL": "0191c16a-91ae-7378-a266-1fb1215ec39a", "dataChecksum": "6802986546000956647", "metadataChecksum": "524395552973319363", "datasetName": "Government Revenue Dataset (GRD)", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2023-11-01", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"name": "Taxes including social contributions", "unit": "% of GDP", "shortUnit": "%", "tolerance": 5, "numDecimalPlaces": 1}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "major", "presentation": {"attributionShort": "UNU-WIDER", "topicTagsLinks": ["Taxation", "State Capacity"]}, "descriptionKey": ["Taxes are defined as compulsory, unrequited payments to the government, following IMF and OECD definitions.", "Resource taxes (mostly related to oil and mining) are not systematically defined or captured in the data.", "Social contributions include both compulsory and voluntary social insurance contributions from employers, employees, and the self-employed."], "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 1996}, {"id": 1997}, {"id": 1998}, {"id": 1999}, {"id": 2000}, {"id": 2001}, {"id": 2002}, {"id": 2003}, {"id": 2004}, {"id": 2005}, {"id": 2006}, {"id": 2007}, {"id": 2018}, {"id": 2019}, {"id": 2020}, {"id": 2021}, {"id": 2022}, {"id": 2008}, {"id": 2009}, {"id": 2010}, {"id": 2011}, {"id": 2012}, {"id": 2013}, {"id": 2014}, {"id": 2015}, {"id": 2016}, {"id": 2017}, {"id": 1993}, {"id": 1994}, {"id": 1995}, {"id": 1992}, {"id": 1985}, {"id": 1986}, {"id": 1987}, {"id": 1988}, {"id": 1990}, {"id": 1991}, {"id": 1980}, {"id": 1981}, {"id": 1982}, {"id": 1983}, {"id": 1984}, {"id": 1989}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 219, "name": "Aruba", "code": "ABW"}, {"id": 15, "name": "Afghanistan", "code": "AFG"}, {"id": 19, "name": "Angola", "code": "AGO"}, {"id": 228, "name": "Anguilla", "code": "AIA"}, {"id": 16, "name": "Albania", "code": "ALB"}, {"id": 72, "name": "United Arab Emirates", "code": "ARE"}, {"id": 21, "name": "Argentina", "code": "ARG"}, {"id": 22, "name": "Armenia", "code": "ARM"}, {"id": 20, "name": "Antigua and Barbuda", "code": "ATG"}, {"id": 23, "name": "Australia", "code": "AUS"}, {"id": 24, "name": "Austria", "code": "AUT"}, {"id": 25, "name": "Azerbaijan", "code": "AZE"}, {"id": 41, "name": "Burundi", "code": "BDI"}, {"id": 4, "name": "Belgium", "code": "BEL"}, {"id": 32, "name": "Benin", "code": "BEN"}, {"id": 40, "name": "Burkina Faso", "code": "BFA"}, {"id": 28, "name": "Bangladesh", "code": "BGD"}, {"id": 39, "name": "Bulgaria", "code": "BGR"}, {"id": 27, "name": "Bahrain", "code": "BHR"}, {"id": 26, "name": "Bahamas", "code": "BHS"}, {"id": 35, "name": "Bosnia and Herzegovina", "code": "BIH"}, {"id": 30, "name": "Belarus", "code": "BLR"}, {"id": 31, "name": "Belize", "code": "BLZ"}, {"id": 34, "name": "Bolivia", "code": "BOL"}, {"id": 37, "name": "Brazil", "code": "BRA"}, {"id": 29, "name": "Barbados", "code": "BRB"}, {"id": 38, "name": "Brunei", "code": "BRN"}, {"id": 33, "name": "Bhutan", "code": "BTN"}, {"id": 36, "name": "Botswana", "code": "BWA"}, {"id": 174, "name": "Central African Republic", "code": "CAF"}, {"id": 44, "name": "Canada", "code": "CAN"}, {"id": 7, "name": "Switzerland", "code": "CHE"}, {"id": 172, "name": "Chile", "code": "CHL"}, {"id": 171, "name": "China", "code": "CHN"}, {"id": 143, "name": "Cote d'Ivoire", "code": "CIV"}, {"id": 43, "name": "Cameroon", "code": "CMR"}, {"id": 167, "name": "Democratic Republic of Congo", "code": "COD"}, {"id": 168, "name": "Congo", "code": "COG"}, {"id": 170, "name": "Colombia", "code": "COL"}, {"id": 169, "name": "Comoros", "code": "COM"}, {"id": 45, "name": "Cape Verde", "code": "CPV"}, {"id": 166, "name": "Costa Rica", "code": "CRI"}, {"id": 164, "name": "Cuba", "code": "CUB"}, {"id": 163, "name": "Cyprus", "code": "CYP"}, {"id": 162, "name": "Czechia", "code": "CZE"}, {"id": 6, "name": "Germany", "code": 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205, "title": "Government Revenue Dataset (GRD)", "description": "The GRD aims to present a complete picture of government revenue and tax trends over time and allows for analysis at the country, regional or cross-country level. Where possible, figures are expressed both inclusive and exclusive of natural resource revenues, which helps to overcome a major obstacle to cross-country comparisons in existing data sources.", "producer": "UNU-WIDER", "citationFull": "UNU-WIDER Government Revenue Dataset. Version 2023. https://doi.org/10.35188/UNU-WIDER/GRD-2023", "attribution": "UNU-WIDER Government Revenue Dataset (2023)", "attributionShort": "UNU-WIDER", "versionProducer": "2023", "urlMain": "https://www.wider.unu.edu/project/grd-government-revenue-dataset", "dateAccessed": "2023-11-01", "datePublished": "2023-09-01", "license": {"url": "https://www.wider.unu.edu/project/grd-government-revenue-dataset", "name": "CC BY 4.0"}}]}