Structure of general government revenues

Abstract

across oecD countries, taxes represented the largest part of all government revenues, with an average of 59.3% in 2015, while one quarter were collected through net social contributions, with the remaining revenues distributed between grants (8.5%) and sales (7.3%). the share of revenues collected from taxes range from 87.8% in Denmark to 42.4% in the Slovak republic, while net social contributions represent 37% in Germany to 1.9% in Denmark. revenues derived from sales ranged from 14% in Switzerland to 0.3% in mexico; mexico, in turn, received the largest share of revenues from grants and other revenues with 33.2%, while France only collects 2.9% of its revenues from these sources.