Belgium vs Sweden: Effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - Corporate
Effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - Corporate over time
- Belgium
- Sweden
How they compare
Belgium currently reports 15.32 Percentage of taxable income against 13.12 Percentage of taxable income in Sweden, a difference of 2.2 Percentage of taxable income.
That makes Belgium's figure about 1.2 times Sweden's.
Across all 7 years both countries report, Belgium has been ahead every year.
Belgium ranks 24th and Sweden ranks 26th of 50 countries.
Belgium has averaged higher in every one of the 2 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Belgium | Sweden | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 19.26 Percentage of taxable income | 16.75 Percentage of taxable income | 2.51 Percentage of taxable income | Belgium |
| 2020s | 15.34 Percentage of taxable income | 13.33 Percentage of taxable income | 2.01 Percentage of taxable income | Belgium |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - corporate, Belgium or Sweden?
- Belgium, at 15.32 Percentage of taxable income against 13.12 Percentage of taxable income in Sweden as of 2025.
- What is the difference in effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - corporate between Belgium and Sweden?
- 2.2 Percentage of taxable income, with Belgium ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Belgium and Sweden?
- 7 years are reported by both, from 2019 to 2025.
- How do Belgium and Sweden rank globally for effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - corporate?
- Belgium ranks 24th and Sweden ranks 26th 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 — Effective average tax rate. 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.