Total tax rate (% of commercial profits) - Country Ranking - Asia

Definition: Total tax rate measures the amount of taxes and mandatory contributions payable by businesses after accounting for allowable deductions and exemptions as a share of commercial profits. Taxes withheld (such as personal income tax) or collected and remitted to tax authorities (such as value added taxes, sales taxes or goods and service taxes) are excluded.

Source: World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Afghanistan 71.40 2019
2 Tajikistan 67.30 2019
3 China 59.20 2019
4 Sri Lanka 55.20 2019
5 India 49.70 2019
6 Japan 46.70 2019
7 Russia 46.20 2019
8 Iran 44.70 2019
9 Philippines 43.10 2019
10 Syrian Arab Republic 42.70 2019
11 Turkey 42.30 2019
12 Nepal 41.80 2019
13 Azerbaijan 40.70 2019
14 Malaysia 38.70 2019
15 Vietnam 37.60 2019
16 Bhutan 35.30 2019
17 Pakistan 33.90 2019
18 Bangladesh 33.40 2019
19 Korea 33.20 2019
20 Lebanon 32.20 2019
21 Uzbekistan 31.60 2019
22 Myanmar 31.20 2019
23 Iraq 30.80 2019
24 Indonesia 30.10 2019
25 Thailand 29.50 2019
26 Kyrgyz Republic 29.00 2019
27 Jordan 28.60 2019
28 Kazakhstan 28.40 2019
29 Oman 27.40 2019
30 Yemen 26.60 2019
31 Mongolia 25.70 2019
32 Israel 25.30 2019
33 Lao PDR 24.10 2019
34 Cambodia 23.10 2019
35 Armenia 22.60 2019
36 Hong Kong SAR, China 21.90 2019
37 Singapore 21.00 2019
38 Timor-Leste 17.30 2019
39 United Arab Emirates 15.90 2019
40 Saudi Arabia 15.70 2019
41 Bahrain 13.80 2019
42 Kuwait 13.00 2019
43 Qatar 11.30 2019
44 Georgia 9.90 2019
45 Brunei 8.00 2019

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Development Relevance: The total tax rate payable by businesses provides a comprehensive measure of the cost of all the taxes a business bears. It differs from the statutory tax rate, which is the factor applied to the tax base. In computing business tax rates, actual tax payable is divided by commercial profit. Taxes are the main source of revenue for most governments. The sources of tax revenue and their relative contributions are determined by government policy choices about where and how to impose taxes and by changes in the structure of the economy. Tax policy may reflect concerns about distributional effects, economic efficiency (including corrections for externalities), and the practical problems of administering a tax system. There is no ideal level of taxation. But taxes influence incentives and thus the behavior of economic actors and the economy's competitiveness.

Limitations and Exceptions: To make the data comparable across countries, several assumptions are made about businesses. The main assumptions are that they are limited liability companies, they operate in the country's most populous city, they are domestically owned, they perform general industrial or commercial activities, and they have certain levels of start-up capital, employees, and turnover. The Doing Business methodology on business taxes is consistent with the Total Tax Contribution framework developed by PricewaterhouseCoopers (now PwC), which measures the taxes that are borne by companies and that affect their income statements. However, PwC bases its calculation on data from the largest companies in the economy, while Doing Business focuses on a standardized medium-size company.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The data covering taxes payable by businesses, measure all taxes and contributions that are government mandated (at any level - federal, state, or local), apply to standardized businesses, and have an impact in their income statements. The taxes covered go beyond the definition of a tax for government national accounts (compulsory, unrequited payments to general government) and also measure any imposts that affect business accounts. The main differences are in labor contributions and value added taxes. The data account for government-mandated contributions paid by the employer to a requited private pension fund or workers insurance fund but exclude value added taxes because they do not affect the accounting profits of the business - that is, they are not reflected in the income statement.

Aggregation method: Unweighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Data are presented for the survey year instead of publication year.