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The burden of taxation rose between 1985 and 2007 in all of the major OECD countries except Britain (see the first table on the [[/Addendum|addendum subpage]]).  There are significant exceptions to every other trend, but the OECD's tax database[http://www.oecd.org/ctp/taxdatabase] records the following changes in the shares  of the components of taxation as occurring in most of its member countries:-
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* a fall in the contribution of personal income tax (with exceptions that include Britain and France);
==Index and Glossary==
* a rise in the share taken by social security contributions (with exceptions that include France );
There is an index to the topics dealt with in the economics articles [[Economics/Related Articles|here]], and a glossary of economic terms [[Economics/Glossary|here]].
* a rise in the share taken by corporate income tax (with exceptions that include all of the larger countries);
 
* a rise in consumption taxes, accounted or mainly by the spread of VAT to every OECD country except the USA;
See also the [[Politics/Index|'''index to the politics articles ''']].
* an increase in the proportion of the consumption tax take accounted for by general taxation such as VAT, and a corresponding fall in the share of excise and other specific taxes;
 
* a reduction the steepness of the increase in tax rates with rising income (with exceptions that include ); and,
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* a fall in the highest marginal rates of taxation (with exceptions that include ).
 
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|"''The European Union is something ...
very precious, not only for us in Europe, but also for the rest of the world. Because the European Union is, in fact, the result of a project for peace that brought together nations emerging from the ruins of the Second World War. It was the European Union that united them in peace around the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, justice, rule of law and respect for human rights.''"
 
:Merci Olsson, of Nobel Med, congratulating  President Barroso on the award of The Nobel Peace Prize t the European Union, 12 October 2012.
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Index and Glossary

There is an index to the topics dealt with in the economics articles here, and a glossary of economic terms here.

See also the index to the politics articles .

methodology

"The European Union is something ... 
very precious, not only for us in Europe, but also for the rest of the world. Because the European Union is, in fact, the result of a project for peace that brought together nations emerging from the ruins of the Second World War. It was the European Union that united them in peace around the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, justice, rule of law and respect for human rights."
Merci Olsson, of Nobel Med, congratulating President Barroso on the award of The Nobel Peace Prize t the European Union, 12 October 2012.
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