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And The Award for the Most Tax-Oppressive Developed Country in the OECD Goes to…

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Via Glenn Reynolds via TaxProf Blog via Cato, from the OECD comes this ranking of "tax oppressiveness." The higher the ranking, the more oppressive the jurisdiction. Switzerland and Luxembourg are 30 and 29. 

The tax oppression index is based on 18 representative criteria measuring fiscal attractiveness, public governance and financial privacy in the 30 member states of the OECD.

  1. Italy
  2. Turkey
  3. Poland
  4. Mexico
  5. Germany
  6. Netherlands
  7. Belgium
  8. Hungary
  9. France
  10. Greece
  11. United Kingdon
  12. United States

Whole study here.