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Values among 30 countries

Indicator metadata and score calculation

Definition:	Ease of paying taxes indicator
Year:	2020
Unit:	Standardized Scale
Direction:	High values translate into high scores
Source 1:	World Bank Doing Business
Data for:
Annotation:	World Bank: Dataset: Doing Business, Paying taxes (DB17-20 methodology) - Score [PAY.TAX.DB1719.DRFN] (years 2016-2020), Paying taxes (DB06-16 methodology) - Score [PAY.TAX.DB0616.DFRN] (years up to 2015) URL: https://databank.worldbank.o…

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Maximum:	100
Minimum:	57.945
/	Above/Below IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=1+relative distance*9

Top group

Score

Tax System Complexity

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Upper middle group

Ireland

8.8

94.59

Denmark

8.1

91.14

New Zealand

8.1

91.05

Finland

8.1

90.89

Estonia

7.8

89.88

Israel

7.8

89.61

Latvia

7.6

89.00

Lithuania

7.6

88.81

Canada

7.4

88.05

Switzerland

7.4

87.66

Netherlands

7.3

87.41

USA

7.2

86.76

7.0

86.18

Australia

6.9

85.67

Sweden

6.8

85.28

Norway

6.8

85.13

Spain

6.7

84.74

Portugal

6.5

83.75

Austria

6.5

83.50

Slovenia

6.4

83.27

Germany

6.2

82.16

Japan

6.1

81.63

Czechia

6.0

81.35

Lower middle group

Slovakia

5.9

80.62

Hungary

5.8

80.57

France

5.5

79.18

Belgium

5.4

78.38

Greece

5.1

77.14

Poland

5.0

76.43

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Bottom group

Italy

2.3

63.95

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