variables: 816306

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id name unit description createdAt updatedAt code coverage timespan datasetId sourceId shortUnit display columnOrder originalMetadata grapherConfigAdmin shortName catalogPath dimensions schemaVersion processingLevel processingLog titlePublic titleVariant attributionShort attribution descriptionShort descriptionFromProducer descriptionKey descriptionProcessing licenses license grapherConfigETL type sort dataChecksum metadataChecksum
816306 Taxes on goods and services (as a share of GDP) % of GDP   2023-11-09 17:39:48 2024-07-08 17:02:52     1980-2022 6294   % 
{
    "name": "Taxes on goods and services",
    "unit": "% of GDP",
    "shortUnit": "%",
    "tolerance": 5,
    "numDecimalPlaces": 1
}
 0     tax_g_s grapher/unu_wider/2023-11-01/government_revenue_dataset/government_revenue_dataset#tax_g_s   2 major             The variable Taxes captures tax collected regardless of sources (i.e., unless otherwise defined, this includes resource-based taxes). These follow the definition of taxes found in both the IMF’ Government Finance Statistics Manual (GFSM) and OECD Revenue Statistics Interpretive Guide as ‘compulsory, unrequited …’ payments to the government (IMF 2014; OECD 2020). Indirect taxes comprise the sum of taxes on goods and services, international trade and transactions, and other taxes. The position displayed in Indirect may exceed the sum of mentioned sub-components due to unallocated revenue not classified in any of these categories. Note that the component of indirect taxes from natural resources is only non-zero in a small number of cases. The majority of taxes on goods and services is comprised of sales taxes, value-added taxes (VAT) and excise duties. The OECD’s Revenue Statistics classes taxes on international trade and transactions under taxes on goods and services; thus for the GRD it is stripped out and reallocated . Note that the total of ‘Taxes on Goods and Services’ may be greater than the sum of the subcomponents due to unallocated residual revenues. Note also that, historically, a large number of countries classed VAT and Excise duty collected on imports as trade taxes. Both the IMF and OECD classify these as taxes on goods and services, and thus fall in this category. In the GRD, where it has not been possible to make this correction—primarily where historical Article IV data is involved—a note has been added to the relevant observations. 
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 The source provides their data with caution notes, classifying them as follows: 1. Accuracy, quality or comparability of data questionable. 2. Un-excluded resource revenues/taxes are significant but cannot be isolated from total revenue/taxes. 3. Un-excluded resource revenue/taxes are marginal but non-negligible and cannot be isolated from total revenue/taxes. 4. Inconsistencies with social contributions. We have excluded from our dataset the observations flagged with caution note 1.       float 
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