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Estate, Inheritance, and Gift Taxes

Increasing our understanding of estate, inheritance, and gift taxation is critical for better understanding their roles in promoting economic growth, reducing inequality, and funding public goods and services.
Explore the novel comprehensive compilation of data related to the evolution of estate, inheritance, and gift taxation across countries. It contains information on full tax schedules, marginal tax rates, tax revenues, and exemption thresholds.

KEY TAX FEATURES: WORLD MAPS

KEY TAX FEATURES: WORLD MAPS

Visualize tax rates, revenues, and exemption thresholds across countries

View maps and histograms of top marginal tax rates, tax revenues, and exemption thresholds.

Select options including across countries and single year/range (average).

KEY TAX FEATURES: GRAPHS

Time Trends by Country

Compare any two key features over time and by country.

Country Comparison: Time Series

Compare any key feature over time and across countries.

Country Comparison: Scatterplots

Compare any two key features across countries in a single year.

FULL TAX SCHEDULES

Country View

Visualize the tax rate applying to all inheritance or estate values in a country for the selected years.

Country Comparison

Compare countries' tax rates applying to all inheritance or estate values in a single year.

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Data Sources Library: Estate, Inheritance, and Gift Taxes

A full list of sources for this database is available in the Estate, Inheritance, and Gift Taxes section of the Data Sources Library.

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