The ratio of a country’s tax to GDP (gross domestic product) is referred to as the tax burden. It is a rough measure of how heavily taxed residents of a country are. In 2005 New Zealand was just above the OECD average.
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Source: OECD, Tax revenue statistics, 1965–2006 (last accessed 13 February 2009).
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