Talk:Tax rates in Europe

Miscellaneous comments
Both links, the only things sustainging the date in this survery have no information on them.

This article should be struck. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.99.174.41 (talk) 18:15, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

this article lacks turkey, one of the largest european countries. it also includes israel, which while partially culturaly european, is geo-graphically not considered european.

OK, I have added a note and a link (note for French income tax) which refers to a KPMG study on all income taxes. This link can be reused for most countries and should provide a serious background for all data published in the current article. Alphast 13:15, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Inaccuracies
Why is social security tax and other revenue being counted in "income tax". Income tax is a specific tax in itself and due to the complicated methods of assessing social contributions accross EU jurisdictions, I think it should be left as straightforward as possible ; at best, social contributions belong in another column. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.125.42.225 (talk) 10:08, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

It doesn't matter whether a tax is for social security, for education, for the army, etc. Tax is tax. In fact, it is common practice to cut taxes up in different pieces in order to fool the people into thinking the effective tax rate is not so high. For example in Belgium, for each 100 euro extra gross income in the top bracket, you first pay 13,07% for social security, then 50% income tax on the remainder, and this last part gets increased by an additional city tax of 8 to 9%. In short: 40 euro left, which represents an effective marginal tax rate of 60% instead of 50%. And it gets worse: before having to pay 100 euro, the employer already had to deposit 32 euro as social security tax. It doesn't matter who subtracts the 32 euro from the gross salary (employer or employee). In this case, when the real gross salary is 132, and there is 40 euro left in your pocket, the marginal tax rate is 70% instead of 50%. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:1810:A50F:400:D194:D229:B3F1:A296 (talk) 20:43, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

If you are adding things like medical care and social security to the income tax figure, Bulgaria is more like 35-40% not 10. 78.83.97.105 (talk) 01:30, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

No, income tax is any tax levied on income. Many countries split their income tax into multiple taxes - for example, in the United Kingdom, income tax is composed of two taxes - Income Tax and National Insurance Contributions. Why they choose to do this is off-topic, but the fact that they do this is not. 82.71.44.188 (talk) 11:00, 23 September 2012 (UTC) in This article is rife with inaccuracies. Only two figures are referenced, and the details for one of those is incorrectly added to the table. Nuttah68 19:06, 28 May 2007 (UTC)


 * No that makes no sense. I have to pay tax, but I have no income at all. 79.106.203.98 (talk) 15:26, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

This article is also not very precise in some cases. (e.g. Germany has more that 15% corporate tax in every of it's states). Most of the income tax rates only apply on a certain amount of income. (e.g. Austria 0% up to 10.000€, 38.33% for 10.000 to 25.000, 44.596 for 25.000 to 51.000, 50% for the part of income above that) Nosaintyet (talk) 05:23, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

VAT in Hungary is 25% again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.114.158.24 (talk) 14:18, 2 February 2010 (UTC)


 * This is a wiki. Please boldly correct any inaccuracies you find.  Paul Beardsell 11:11, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Czech Republic corporate tax rate is 19%, not 21%. See e.g. http://www.taxrates.cc/html/czech-republic-tax-rates.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.49.123.21 (talk) 11:14, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

The statement by Nuttah68 is unclear to me. Please list inaccuracies or edit them. I can understand that VAT is unclear to Americans, but it is a European Union tax though the level can be set by national governments (above the minimum rate). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Antoine Clarke (talk • contribs) 23:30, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Ireland reported percentages are the maximum types but ranges are applied as in UK case. http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/it/leaflets/it1.html#section3 http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/it/leaflets/it1.html#section17 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.198.151.106 (talk) 13:38, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

The figures for income rates in the United Kingdom fail to take account of differentials (in terms of both rates and taxable bands) in Scotland. The differences have just become more pronounced as a result of a Scottish Government budget of 15th December 2022: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-63994702 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 51.171.103.126 (talk) 11:36, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

Incorrect nomenclature
VAT is British Specific and not relevant to Wikipedia. VAT is a form of 'point of sale tax'. To refer to it as Value Added Tax is incorrect. It should be referred to as 'sales tax'. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.164.63.107 (talk) 20:50, 24 November 2010 (UTC)


 * VAT is not British-specific. In fact it is standard across the entire European Union.  For example, each member state must have at least a 15% standard rate Value Added Tax.  ConorBrady.ie  (caint)  08:20, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Budget is just in. Ireland's vat rate is now 23% — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.7.165.130 (talk) 18:27, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

VAT is not British specific. It is a tax levied in all 27 member states of the EU. The commenter who states otherwise is misinformed.

Turkey is not part of the European Union, but adding its tax rates if they are available would be good. As for Israel's tax rates, they are of interest to Europeans: some EU citizens might consider moving to Israel if the tax situation was preferable there than in the EU. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Antoine Clarke (talk • contribs) 23:34, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Since 1st January 2014 France VAT has raised from 19.6% to 20.0% from 7% to 10% Official Source: http://www.economie.gouv.fr/cedef/taux-tva-france-et-union-europeenne — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.228.171.126 (talk) 12:51, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

4th column for capital tax
Shouldn't there be a 4th column for capital tax? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.188.117.5 (talk) 20:15, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
 * agree Olliyeah (talk) 11:54, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

Columns sort lexically, not numerically.
I'm not sure how to fix this... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mataap (talk • contribs) 14:13, 15 March 2013 (UTC) the UK tax is listed as 40% for two different levels. one is probably 30% or something similar — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.18.136.99 (talk) 17:47, 8 September 2013 (UTC)


 * You change it, like every wiki table? 79.106.203.98 (talk) 15:27, 27 April 2024 (UTC)