Australia vs Japan: Effective tax rates for income based tax incentives - Corporate tax
Effective tax rates for income based tax incentives - Corporate tax over time
- Australia
- Japan
How they compare
Australia currently reports 26.18 Percentage of taxable income against 26.16 Percentage of taxable income in Japan, a difference of 0.02 Percentage of taxable income.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 15 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Japan ahead.
Australia ranks 10th and Japan ranks 13th of 41 countries.
Japan has averaged higher in every one of the 2 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Australia | Japan | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 26.53 Percentage of taxable income | 34.97 Percentage of taxable income | 8.44 Percentage of taxable income | Japan |
| 2010s | 26.18 Percentage of taxable income | 31.1 Percentage of taxable income | 4.92 Percentage of taxable income | Japan |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher effective tax rates for income based tax incentives - corporate tax, Australia or Japan?
- Australia, at 26.18 Percentage of taxable income against 26.16 Percentage of taxable income in Japan as of 2025.
- What is the difference in effective tax rates for income based tax incentives - corporate tax between Australia and Japan?
- 0.02 Percentage of taxable income, with Australia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and Japan?
- 15 years are reported by both, from 2000 to 2016.
- How do Australia and Japan rank globally for effective tax rates for income based tax incentives - corporate tax?
- Australia ranks 10th and Japan ranks 13th of 41 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as Effective tax rates for income 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 income-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.