§ Mr. Knoxasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for each member country of the OECD the average amount paid in direct taxation by an industrial worker for each year since 1945.
§ Mr. Robert SheldonThe following information, which is taken from Revenue Statistics of OECD Member Countries 1965–72, Annexe I Table 6, shows the average rate of personal income tax paid by a taxpayer with average earnings of production workers in manufacturing in each country for 1972:
Single man Married couple with 2 children Per cent. Per cent. Australia 20 15 Austria 13 3 Belgium 11 8 Canada 20 13 Denmark 35 28 Finland 28 20 France 7 — Germany 16 7 Greece 2 1 Ireland 19 9 Italy 8 7 Japan 11 5 Luxembourg 14 4 Netherlands 13 11 New Zealand 19 16 Norway 24 19 Portugal — — Spain 1 1 Sweden 33 27 Switzerland 10 7 United Kingdom 20 11 United States 19 10 Notes:
Personal income tax includes local income taxes—but not other forms of local taxation—where they apply.
Children are assumed to be of school age.
I regret that this information is not available for earlier or later years.