Australia vs Sweden: Effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - Corporate
Effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - Corporate over time
- Australia
- Sweden
How they compare
Australia currently reports -4.8 Percentage of taxable income against -5.72 Percentage of taxable income in Sweden, a difference of 0.92 Percentage of taxable income.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 7 shared years of data; in 2019 it was Sweden ahead.
Australia ranks 19th and Sweden ranks 22nd of 50 countries.
Across the 2 decades both report, Australia averaged higher in 1 and Sweden in 1.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Australia | Sweden | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | -4.8 Percentage of taxable income | -2.83 Percentage of taxable income | 1.97 Percentage of taxable income | Sweden |
| 2020s | -4.8 Percentage of taxable income | -5.63 Percentage of taxable income | 0.83 Percentage of taxable income | Australia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - corporate, Australia or Sweden?
- Australia, at -4.8 Percentage of taxable income against -5.72 Percentage of taxable income in Sweden as of 2025.
- What is the difference in effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - corporate between Australia and Sweden?
- 0.92 Percentage of taxable income, with Australia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and Sweden?
- 7 years are reported by both, from 2019 to 2025.
- How do Australia and Sweden rank globally for effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - corporate?
- Australia ranks 19th and Sweden ranks 22nd of 50 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as Effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - Corporate tax statistics — Implicit subsidy (EATR). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
This table reports synthetic tax policy indicators that capture the effect of expenditure-based R&D tax incentives on firms’ investment costs: The EATR for R&D measures the impact of taxation on R&D investments that earn an economic profit. the user cost of capital for R&D measures the return that a firm needs to realise on an R&D investment before tax to offset all costs and taxes that arise from the investment, making zero economic profit. Further methodological information is available in the explanatory annex.