Brussels, 22/06/2009 (Agence Europe) - The overall tax burden represented 39.8% of GDP in the EU27 in 2007, that is, a slight rise compared to 39.7% recorded in 2006, reveals a report published on Monday 22 June by Eurostat and DG Taxation and Customs Union of the European Commission. This percentage, which was 40.6% in 2000, fell to 38.9% in 2004, before beginning to rise again. In the eurozone, evolution is similar to that in the EU as a whole, but at a slightly higher level. In 2007, the...