From Australia’s future tax system

90 percent of the tax revenue collected by the Australian government (including the state and local government) came from 10 taxes:

From Australia’s future Tax System

Some interesting data from a report on Australia’s Tax system. Both graphs are displaying statutory corporate tax rate (i.e. the tax rate that is imposed on taxable income of corporation). Notice that the average of  OECD countries has decreased from 32.5% (2001) to 26.6% (2008)

Statutory corporate tax rate 2001

Statutory corporate tax rate 2008

From The Department of Energy

Ranking the state tax on gasoline from the lowest (Alaska $0.08) to the highest (Pennsylvania $0.381)

From The Department of Energy

Ranking the state tax on gasoline from the lowest (Alaska $0.08) to the highest (Washington $0.375)

From Stateline found via TaxProf blog

Breakdown of the different taxes levied by each state. While all states have some form of sales tax and property taxes and licenses/fees there are a few without corporate or individual income taxes.

From Mint

There is a lot going on in this graphic. First, keep in mind that a “Tax unit” is either a single person, two people married filling jointly, or head of household (for example a single person with dependent child).

The gray dashed bars are the tax units that don’t owe any taxes to the Federal Government. What struck me was that these people can be found at all income levels.

I always enjoy a graph of the marginal tax rate (i.e. the tax rate applied to the income of the very wealthy by the Federal Government). But I don’t know why they needed a 3-D line? From Starboard Broadside

Second graph is of the same data but not as pretty. From Balloon Juice

Here is one I created in 2007.

Data from Bureau of Labor Statistics: Consumer Price Index History Table

If you want more see Inflation and Deflation created by WallStats

Data from Bureau of Labor Statistics: Current Population Survey (CPS)