Taxes on Payroll and Workforce

QoG code: ictd_taxpaywf

Total taxes on payroll and workforce. This variable is entirely distinct from social contributions, though in underlying sources, social contributions are very occasionally reported as payroll taxes.

Type of variable
Continuous
Downloaded by QoG on
2025-12-19
Last updated by source
2025-10-29

Categories

Public Economy
Details of this variable in our compilation datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard cross-section 46
Standard time-series 77
Dataset Available for years
Standard time-series 1980-2023

Country coverage

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  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahrain
  • Bangladesh
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Belize
  • Benin
  • Bhutan
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Brazil
  • Bulgaria
  • Burkina Faso
  • Cameroon
  • Canada
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Congo
  • Congo, Democratic Republic
  • Costa Rica
  • Cote d'Ivoire
  • Croatia
  • Cuba
  • Cyprus (1975-)
  • Denmark
  • Eswatini (former Swaziland)
  • Finland
  • France (1963-)
  • Gambia
  • Greece
  • Guinea
  • Honduras
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • Iran
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Jamaica
  • Jordan
  • Korea, South
  • Latvia
  • Lebanon
  • Luxembourg
  • Mali
  • Mauritania
  • Mauritius
  • Mexico
  • Nepal
  • Niger
  • Norway
  • Oman
  • Palau
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Senegal
  • Serbia
  • Seychelles
  • Singapore
  • Slovenia
  • South Africa
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Tajikistan
  • Tanzania
  • Togo
  • Tunisia
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Uruguay
  • Venezuela

Year coverage

This variable has information from 1980 to 2023.