Brussels, 22/10/2004 (Agence Europe) - The proportion of the national wealth of corporate tax is generally as high in the new Member States as in the old ones, an OECD report reveals. The "Public revenue statistics 1996-2003" of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, which were published last week, come just in time to fuel the debate about "tax dumping" and delocalisations eastwards.
According to OECD data, tax on company profits represented 4.6% of GDP in the Czech...