Corporation Tax in Northern Ireland - Northern Ireland Affairs Committee Contents


Supplementary written evidence from Victor Hewitt, NIERG

PAYROLL TAX BURDEN

Information for various countries on the tax burden is available from an OECD publication "Taxing Wages". Links to the full report which is subscription only can be found here:

http://www.oecd.org/document/57/0,3343,en_2649_34897_45071289_1_1_1_1,00.html

Notes for specific countries are also published. The one for Ireland is here:

http://www.oecd.org/document/40/0,3343,en_2649_34533_45143016_1_1_1_1,00.html

and for the UK here:

http://www.oecd.org/document/39/0,3343,en_2649_34533_45147879_1_1_1_1,00.html

Effective Tax Rates

Data from the Institute for Fiscal Studies on effective and headline corporate tax rates can be found in the link below (a zip file). The figures relate to 2003 updated to 2005 but the methodology is standard.

http://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/3210

23 November 2010




 
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