Korea vs United States: Effective tax rates for income based tax incentives - Corporate tax
Effective tax rates for income based tax incentives - Corporate tax over time
- Korea
- United States
How they compare
United States currently reports 33.96 Percentage of taxable income against 17.46 Percentage of taxable income in Korea, a difference of 16.5 Percentage of taxable income.
That makes United States's figure about 1.9 times Korea's.
Across all 8 years both countries report, United States has been ahead every year.
Korea ranks 3rd and United States ranks 2nd of 3 groups.
United States has averaged higher in every one of the 2 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Korea | United States | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 21.82 Percentage of taxable income | 34.25 Percentage of taxable income | 12.43 Percentage of taxable income | United States |
| 2010s | 18.33 Percentage of taxable income | 34.17 Percentage of taxable income | 15.84 Percentage of taxable income | United States |
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, Korea or United States?
- United States, at 33.96 Percentage of taxable income against 17.46 Percentage of taxable income in Korea as of 2017.
- What is the difference in effective tax rates for income based tax incentives - corporate tax between Korea and United States?
- 16.5 Percentage of taxable income, with United States ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Korea and United States?
- 8 years are reported by both, from 2006 to 2013.
- How do Korea and United States rank globally for effective tax rates for income based tax incentives - corporate tax?
- Korea ranks 3rd and United States ranks 2nd of 3 groups.
- 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.