Get OECD tax revenue data

Downloads (and caches) total tax revenue as a share of GDP for OECD member countries from the OECD Revenue Statistics Comparator database.

Usage

get_oecd_tax(countries = "all", start_year = 1990, refresh = FALSE)

Arguments

countries

Character vector of ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country codes, or "all" for all available OECD members. Defaults to "all". Run list_oecd_countries() to see available codes.

start_year

Numeric. Earliest year to include. Defaults to 1990.

refresh

Logical. If TRUE, re-download even if a cached copy exists. Defaults to FALSE.

Value

A data frame with columns:

country

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (character)

country_name

English country name (character)

year

Calendar year (integer)

series

"TAX_REVENUE" (character)

value

Total tax revenue as a share of GDP (numeric)

unit

"% of GDP" (character)

See also

Other fiscal: get_oecd_deficit()

Examples

# \donttest{
op <- options(readoecd.cache_dir = tempdir())
tax <- try(get_oecd_tax(c("AUS", "GBR", "USA"), start_year = 2000))
#> Downloading from OECD API...
if (!inherits(tax, "try-error")) head(tax)
#>   country country_name year      series  value     unit
#> 1     AUS    Australia 2000 TAX_REVENUE 30.380 % of GDP
#> 2     AUS    Australia 2001 TAX_REVENUE 28.859 % of GDP
#> 3     AUS    Australia 2002 TAX_REVENUE 29.736 % of GDP
#> 4     AUS    Australia 2003 TAX_REVENUE 29.833 % of GDP
#> 5     AUS    Australia 2004 TAX_REVENUE 30.134 % of GDP
#> 6     AUS    Australia 2005 TAX_REVENUE 29.835 % of GDP
options(op)
# }