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How the U.S. tax system stacks up against other G-7 economies

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The recent financial crisis, Europe?s sovereign debt problems and the U.S. political dispute about raising the national debt ceiling have prompted fiscal policy debate about the size of government and the type of tax structure needed to fund public expenditures. ; Government revenue of the so-called Group of Seven (G-7) largest industrialized nations expressed as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) from 1970 to 2009 generally trended upward before stabilizing in the 1990s (Chart 1). Revenue averaged 27 percent of GDP in 1970, rising to 36 percent in 2009. Over the past four decades, revenue increased significantly in France, Germany, Italy and Japan, while remaining roughly constant in Canada, the U.K. and the U.S.

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  • Anthony Landry, 2011. "How the U.S. tax system stacks up against other G-7 economies," Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, vol. 6(nov).
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:feddel:y:2011:i:nov:n:v.6no.12
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    1. Ayse Kabukcuoglu, 2014. "The Redistributional Consequences of Tax Reform Under Financial Integration," Koç University-TUSIAD Economic Research Forum Working Papers 1418, Koc University-TUSIAD Economic Research Forum.

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