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The increase in the ratio of taxes to gross domestic product since 2000 occurred despite cuts in tax rates in most of the countries, said Christopher Heady, head of tax policy for the organization.

But even with reduced corporate tax rates, Mr. Heady said that worldwide corporate profits had risen so sharply since 2002 that the amount of money flowing into government coffers had increased.

He attributed most of the long-term rise in taxes to expanded social insurance programs, like universal health care and pensions.

Mr. Heady said two forces were at work in the rising proportion of taxes to economic activity.

One was an upturn in world economic activity since 2002, and especially a sharp rise in corporate profits. The second factor, he said, was that while many countries cut tax rates, the cuts were made in a way that subjected more individual income to tax at the highest, albeit reduced, rates.

C. Eugene Steuerle, an Urban Institute tax economist who served as a policy adviser in the Reagan administration, said that the rise in tax receipts as a share of economic activity was not likely to last if tax rates remained unchanged.

"Growing inequality of income has added to tax collection,'' Dr. Steuerle said, ''but it is unclear how much of that will continue, because it can't.''
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Radio-Canada a écrit:Le ministre des Finances du Canada, Jim Flaherty, a publié mardi une mise à jour économique axée sur une réduction du fardeau fiscal des Canadiens.

Les réductions d'impôt totaliseront 60 milliards de dollars au cours de l'exercice actuel et des cinq suivants, soit jusqu'en 2012-2013.

Selon le ministre Flaherty, le fardeau fiscal fédéral, mesuré par le total des revenus fédéraux en proportion de l'économie, n'a pas été aussi bas depuis 50 ans. Il baissera jusqu'à 15,1 % en 2011-2012, selon les prévisions actuelles.

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