Fetches OECD Revenue Statistics for cross-country tax-to-GDP benchmarking. Returns tax revenue as percent of GDP by tax category. Use to contextualise Australian ATO aggregates in cross-country policy arguments (e.g. OECD average corporate tax-to-GDP, international ranks for personal income tax).
Source
OECD Revenue Statistics https://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/revenue-statistics.htm.
Details
Thin wrapper pointing users to readoecd:: for full OECD API
access; returns a minimal tax-to-GDP slice here for convenience.
Examples
# \donttest{
op <- options(ato.cache_dir = tempdir())
try(ato_international(country = "AUS"))
#> ℹ For full OECD Revenue Statistics access, install readoecd.
#> ℹ This wrapper returns bundled headline tax-to-GDP ratios only.
#> # ato_tbl: OECD tax-to-GDP AUS latest
#> # Source: https://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/revenue-statistics.htm
#> # Licence: OECD terms
#> # Retrieved: 2026-04-28 19:14 UTC
#> # Snapshot: 2026-04-24
#> # Rows: 3 Cols: 4
#>
#> country year tax pct_gdp
#> 1 AUS 2021 total 29.5
#> 2 AUS 2022 total 29.4
#> 3 AUS 2023 total 29.4
options(op)
# }