Taxes as percentage of GDP fell to 34.28% in 2009
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18 de abril de 2024Another shift that can be chalked up to The Great Recession: a reduction in the taxes Brazilians paid last year, at least as a percentage of GDP. Mainly due to a government stimulus package that included tax reductions, government tax revenue was down in 2009. Federal government taxes as a percentage of GDP were 22.96% in 2009, compared to 23.5% in 2008. At the state and municipal levels there was an insignificant reduction of 0.03 percentage points (from 11.35% of GDP in 2008 to 11.32% in 2009).
The numbers are from a survey by the Applied Economic Research Institute (Ipea), which pointed out that the reduction could have been bigger but for a sharp increase in payroll taxes (that went from 8.10% of GDP in 2008 to 8.75% in 2009).
Meanwhile, the Brazilian Tax Planning Institute (IBPT) released its own report (using slightly different metrics) with a slightly different result. IBPT says taxes as a percentage of GDP in 2008 reached 35.16%, falling to 35.09% in 2009.
For the sake of comparison, over the last 30 years, tax collection as a percentage of GDP in the United States has been an average of 18.4%.
