Maximum taxation, minimal benefits for France

Noemi Amelynck // 17 August 2020

For the fifth consecutive year, France has been the champion of taxation, with the average French citizen paying more than half of their income …

The French Tax Burden: Is it all worth it?

Richard Mason // 27 July 2018

French workers shoulder a far greater tax burden than the rest of their European neighbours. While the rest of the continent celebrated their Tax …

The tax burden of workers in the EU: a summary

27 July 2017

First published in 2010, the 2017 Tax Burden study by the Institut économique Molinari measures the tax and social security burdens on individual employees …

Tax Freedom Day 2017

27 July 2017

The purpose of this study is to compare the tax and social security burdens of individual employees earning typical salaries in each of the …

Spanish Tax Freedom Day

27 June 2017

In 2017, the average Spaniard will have worked 178 days in order to fulfill their tax obligations. In other words, Tax Freedom Day, calculated …

The Tax Burden of Typical Workers in the EU 28

Insitut Économique Molinari // 01.08.2016

This July, the Institut Économique Molinari published the sixth edition of their annual EU-wide tax burden study. The …

Shining a light on public overspending in Europe

Diego Zuluaga // 09.11.2015
On Monday, our French partner Institut Economique Molinari released its latest study, shedding late on out-of-control public expenditures across the …

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