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Average tax wedge on labour (share of labour cost)

Income tax plus employees' and employers' social security contributions, less cash benefits, as a share of total labour cost, for a single person without children earning the average wage, as the OECD's Taxing Wages states it.

Published by OECD, Taxing Wages, series OECD.CTP.TPS,DSD_TAX_WAGES_COMP@DF_TW_COMP,2.1. Show the source series

What it covers: One household type only: a single person without children on the average wage. It is what the rules take from a typical pay packet, not the average of what everyone pays.

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