Paying Taxes 2008 - The global picture

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Contents

Foreword 3

Executive summary 6

Section one

Survey methodology 8

Introduction 9

The case study company 9

Total Tax Contribution 10

Ease of paying taxes ranking 11

Number of tax payments 11

Time to comply 12

Tax cost 12

Taxes borne and taxes collected 13

Section two

Learning from reform – a World Bank perspective 16

Section three

Understanding Total Tax Contribution and the Paying Taxes data – a PricewaterhouseCoopers

perspective 26

Section four

The way forward 42

Appendix 1

The data tables 46

Appendix 2

Fundamental definitions and related issues 60

Appendix 3

The PricewaterhouseCoopers Total Tax Contribution framework and developments in 2007 64

Caveats and disclaimers 68