Poland's average tax wedge below OECD average

Taxes on labour income for the average worker across the OECD remained stable at 35.9 percent in 2015, ending a series of steady annual increases dating to 2011, according to new report -Taxing Wages 2016, issued by OECD. The report provides cross-country comparative data on the amounts of taxes, SSCs, payroll taxes and cash benefits for eight family-types, which differ by income level and household composition. It also presents the resulting average tax wedges, which show that part of gross wage earnings or total labor costs which are taken in personal income taxes (before and after cash benefits), SSCs and payroll taxes. Poland's average tax wedge amounted to 34.7 percent and was slightly below the OECD average of 35.9 percent. The highest average tax burdens for childless single workers earning the average national wage were in Belgium (55.3 percent), Austria (49.5 percent), Germany (49.4 percent) and Hungary (49.0 percent).  The lowest were in Chile (7 percent), New Zealand (17.6 percent) and Mexico (19.7 percent).