Labour taxation – tax wedge decompositions

Tax wedge decomposition tables for average and marginal indicators available in the OECD Taxing Wages publication. Unique information for each of the OECD countries on the income taxes paid by workers, their social security contributions (SSC), the family benefits they receive in the form of cash transfers as well as the social security contributions (SSC) and payroll taxes paid by their employers. The amounts are set out, programme by programme, over a range of earnings levels between 50% and 250% of the averge wage for four different household types.

The results reported include the average and marginal tax burden for each household type .

Related topics: PIT, SSC, Top statutory tax rate, Thresholds, Income, Household.