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Government tax burden, % of GDP (annual)

Annual tax burden — total receipts from taxes and compulsory social contributions (including imputed social contributions, after deduction of amounts assessed but unlikely to be collected) as a percentage of GDP — for EU member states, EFTA countries, EU candidates and EU/euro-area aggregates. Eurostat dataset gov_10a_taxag ('Main national tax indicators', ESA 2010), sector general government (S13). Each row is one (year, country): the headline tax-to-GDP ratio used in Eurostat's taxation-trends reporting. Method: Eurostat compiles national accounts transmitted by EU member states under ESA 2010; non-EU/EFTA/candidate countries are dropped (same licensing rule as the other Eurostat datasets). Units: percent of GDP. Caveats: coverage starts 1995 but most series begin in the 2000s; the EU27_2020, EA20, EA19 and other aggregates are included as published; the latest year is provisional and revised. Coverage: ~40 geographic units, 1995 to the present, annual. Provenance: Eurostat keyless JSON-stat API, free reuse with attribution (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) - please cite Eurostat. Primary key: (year, country_code). Join keys: country_code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3), year. Cadence: refreshed yearly; Eurostat updates the dataset in July. Sample use: filter country_code='DNK' to track the Danish tax burden over time.

• government
• fiscal
• government-finance
• tax