Taxes on exports (% of tax revenue) by country

What this measures

Export taxes are taxes on goods or services that become payable to government when the goods leave the economic territory or when the services are delivered to non-residents. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of tax revenue which includes compulsory, unrequited payments, in cash or in kind, made by institutional units to government units.

Limitations: For most countries central government finance data have been consolidated into one account, but for others only budgetary central government accounts are available. Countries reporting budgetary data are noted in the country metadata. Because budgetary accounts may not include all central government units (such as social security funds), they usually provide an incomplete picture. In federal states the central government accounts provide an incomplete view of total public finance. Data on government revenue and expense are collected by the IMF through questionnaires to member countries and by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Each country's latest available year is shown; countries report on different schedules, so compare years before comparing values.

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Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, GC.TAX.EXPT.ZS, CC BY 4.0. Original source: Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF) View on data.worldbank.org; the full definition is in the World Bank's metadata glossary.