Olan McEvoy
Research expert covering the European Union for society, economy, and politics.
Get in touch with us nowWhen measured as a percentage of gross domestic product, tax revenue in the European Union has stagnated for the past two decades, with revenues as a share of GDP standing at 19.8 percent in 2021. Tax revenues had risen consistently from the 1970s until the late 1990s, when revenues peaked at 20.52 percent in 1999. After this high-point, tax revenues slumped to around 19 percent of GDP by 2004, since which they have been on an upward trend, notwithstanding fluctuations.
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