Ireland’s tax burden fell between 2007 and 2009; Recession drove down burden of industrialised countries
Dec 16th, 2010 | By Finfacts Ireland Business & Finance Portal | Category: News worldwide
Ireland's tax burden - its tax revenues as a share of GDP (gross domestic product) - fell by 3 percentage points between 2007 and 2009 and the burden of industrialised countries fell because of the recession, to the lowest level since the early 1990s.