Do Australians pay too much income tax? 6 charts on how we rank against the rest of the world
- Written by Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

Australians pay too much income tax – or so some argue.
The Australian Financial Review’s economics editor, John Kehoe, for example, has noted:
Australians are paying more personal income tax as a share of government revenue than any other advanced economy, except for the high-taxing Scandinavian welfare state of Denmark.
And...