Canada vs Italy: Effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - Corporate
Effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - Corporate over time
- Canada
- Italy
How they compare
Italy currently reports -5.27 Percentage of taxable income against -6.33 Percentage of taxable income in Canada, a difference of 1.06 Percentage of taxable income.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 7 shared years of data; in 2019 it was Italy ahead.
Canada ranks 23rd and Italy ranks 20th of 50 countries.
Across the 2 decades both report, Canada averaged higher in 1 and Italy in 1.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Canada | Italy | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | -5.94 Percentage of taxable income | -1.75 Percentage of taxable income | 4.19 Percentage of taxable income | Italy |
| 2020s | -6.04 Percentage of taxable income | -7.2 Percentage of taxable income | 1.15 Percentage of taxable income | Canada |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - corporate, Canada or Italy?
- Italy, at -5.27 Percentage of taxable income against -6.33 Percentage of taxable income in Canada as of 2025.
- What is the difference in effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - corporate between Canada and Italy?
- 1.06 Percentage of taxable income, with Italy ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Canada and Italy?
- 7 years are reported by both, from 2019 to 2025.
- How do Canada and Italy rank globally for effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - corporate?
- Canada ranks 23rd and Italy ranks 20th 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.