From the Mirrlees review into designing tax systems: Despite some predictions to the contrary, countries are not being forced inexorably to tax less in an increasingly globalized and competitive world economy. Between 1975 and 2008, taxes rose as a proportion of national income in virtually every OECD country. On average, the tax take rose from

The gap between the highest and lowest paid has grown more quickly in Britain than in any other advanced economy, an OECD study says

This week the OECD published its latest analysis of inequality in the UK, including (another) graph in which 1997 is not a turning point but rather this time 2005: With inequality having been rising since 2005 there is so far not enough data in their set to show if the current government is doing much

The divide between the wages of the rich and the poor is growing in nearly all of the world's leading economies, according to think tank the OECD.

and property is greatly undertaxed compared with other countries. This simply is not true. Property tax as a percentage of total tax collected by the country. The UK collects 11.9% of total tax revenue from taxes on property. This is the highest in the OECD and some twice the OECD average of 5.8%. It might

The OECD yesterday slashed its forecast for eurozone economic growth in 2012 to just 0.2%, stating that the eurozone already “appears to be in a mild recession”. OECD Chief Economist Pier Carlo Padoan said, “The eurozone must urgently take stronger measures…The ECB should buy bonds, and set a limit to yields or a floor to bond value.

It is not often one gets such a swift confirmation of what one writes, but after posting a piece last week about the UK Coalition governments media strategy basically boiling down to creating division, distraction and deception. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published a report which said the British National Health Services, which has of late been under a feroci...

Strikes, Olympic boycotts and obesity league tables — it's a dreary set of newspaper front covers this morning. But none of them are quite so dreary as the Telegraph's, which speaks of ‘The return of recession’. According to their story, the OECD has told ministers that its latest set of forecasts, released on Monday, will have the UK economy shrinking for the first six...

Ministers shocked as Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation predicts UK economy will fall back into negative growth in first six months of 2012 due to euro crisis.

According to the OECD, France has higher productivity than the UK – $53.7 per hour worked compared to $45.4 – despite its less flexible labour markets, in large measure due to its excellent infrastructure. No, France has higher productivity per hour worked because of its less flexible labour markets. The numbers are here. English and