World maps
Rates, Revenues, and Thresholds
Visualize tax rates, revenues, and exemption thresholds across countries.
Start here to scan how the main tax features differ across jurisdictions.
Taxes on Wealth
Taxes on Wealth
Increasing our understanding of estate, inheritance, and gift taxation is critical for better understanding their roles in promoting economic growth, reducing inequality, and funding public goods and services. Explore the novel comprehensive compilation of data related to the evolution of estate, inheritance, and gift taxation across countries. It contains information on full tax schedules, marginal tax rates, tax revenues, and exemption thresholds.
Key Tax Features
World Maps
Visualize tax rates, revenues, and exemption thresholds across countries.
World maps
Selection Guidance
View maps and histograms of top marginal tax rates, tax revenues, and exemption thresholds.
Switch from the map to a country view when you need a closer look at one tax system.
Key Tax Features
Graphs
Compare any two key features over time and by country.
Graph views
Time Trends by Country
Compare any two key features over time and by country.
Explore time trends side by side to see how tax features move together.
Graph views
Country Comparison Modes
Country comparison: time series and scatterplots.
Move from line graphs to scatterplots when you want a different comparison lens.
Full Tax Schedules
Country and Comparison Views
Visualize the tax rate applying to all inheritance or estate values in a country for the selected years. Compare countries' tax rates applying to all inheritance or estate values in a single year.
Tax schedules
Country View
Visualize the tax rate applying to all inheritance or estate values in a country for the selected years.
Use the schedule view to see the full rate structure rather than just summary metrics.
Tax schedules
Country Comparison
Compare countries' tax rates applying to all inheritance or estate values in a single year.
Line up countries to compare how the schedules differ at the same moment in time.
Data Sources Library: Taxes on Wealth
A full list of sources for this database is available in the Taxes on Wealth section of the Data Sources Library.