Overall ranking and underlying data

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*Total Tax Rate as a percentage of commercial profits
  Overall ranking and underlying data (185 total economies)
Economy Overall ranking Number of
payments		 Time
to comply (hours)		 Total Tax Rate
(%)
Afghanistan 94 20 275 36.4
Albania 160 44 357 38.7
Algeria 170 29 451 72.0
Angola 154 31 282 53.2
Antigua and Barbuda 142 57 207 41.5
Argentina 149 9 405 108.3
Armenia 108 13 380 38.8
Australia 48 11 109 47.5
Austria 77 12 170 53.1
Azerbaijan 76 18 214 40.0
Bahamas, The 51 18 58 47.8
Bahrain 7 13 36 13.9
Bangladesh 97 20 302 35.0
Barbados 121 28 237 45.4
Belarus 129 10 338 60.7
Belgium 75 11 156 57.7
Belize 45 29 147 33.2
Benin 173 55 270 65.9
Bhutan 71 8 274 40.8
Bolivia 180 42 1025 83.4
Bosnia and Herzegovina 128 44 407 24.1
Botswana 39 32 152 25.3
Brazil 156 9 2600 69.3
Brunei Darussalam 22 27 96 16.8
Bulgaria 91 15 454 28.7
Burkina Faso 157 46 270 43.6
Burundi 137 25 274 53.0
Cambodia 66 40 173 22.5
Cameroon 176 44 654 49.1
Canada 8 8 131 26.9
Cape Verde 102 41 186 37.2
Central African Republic 181 55 504 65.2
Chad 184 54 732 65.4
Chile 36 6 291 28.1
China 122 7 338 63.7
Colombia 99 9 203 74.4
Comoros 114 33 100 217.9
Congo, Dem. Rep. 171 32 336 339.7
Congo, Rep. 182 61 606 62.9
Costa Rica 125 23 226 55.0
Cote d'Ivoire 159 62 270 39.5
Croatia 42 18 196 32.8
Cyprus 31 28 146.5 23.0
Czech Republic 120 8 413 49.2
Denmark 13 10 130 27.7
Djibouti 67 35 82 38.7
Dominica 74 37 120 37.5
Dominican Republic 98 9 324 42.5
Ecuador 84 8 654 34.6
Egypt, Arab Republic 145 29 392 42.6
El Salvador 153 53 320 35.0
Equatorial Guinea 173 46 492 46.0
Eritrea 146 30 216 84.5
Estonia 50 8 85 67.3
Ethiopia 103 31 306 33.3
Fiji 85 34 163 37.6
Finland 23 8 93 40.6
France 53 7 132 65.7
Gabon 146 26 488 43.5
Gambia, The 179 50 376 283.5
Georgia 33 5 280 16.5
Germany 72 9 207 46.8
Ghana 89 32 224 33.5
Greece 56 8 202 44.6
Grenada 85 30 140 45.3
Guatemala 124 24 332 40.9
Guinea 183 58 416 73.2
Guinea-Bissau 146 46 208 45.9
Guyana 118 35 263 36.1
Haiti 123 46 184 40.8
Honduras 139 47 224 40.3
Hong Kong SAR, China 4 3 78 23.0
Hungary 118 12 277 50.3
Iceland 41 29 140 33.0
India 152 33 243 61.8
Indonesia 131 51 259 34.5
Iran, Islamic Rep. 129 20 344 44.1
Iraq 65 13 312 28.1
Ireland 6 8 80 26.4
Israel 82 33 235 30.5
Italy 131 15 269 68.3
Jamaica 163 36 368 45.6
Japan 127 14 330 50.0
Jordan 35 25 151 28.1
Kazakhstan 17 7 188 28.6
Kenya 164 41 340 44.4
Kiribati 9 7 120 31.8
Korea, Republic 30 10 207 29.8
Kosovo 44 33 164 15.4
Kuwait 11 12 98 10.7
Kyrgyz Republic 168 51 210 68.9
Lao PDR 126 34 362 33.3
Latvia 52 7 264 36.6
Lebanon 37 19 180 30.2
Lesotho 95 33 324 16.0
Liberia 45 33 158 27.4
Lithuania 60 11 175 43.7
Luxembourg 14 23 59 21.0
Macedonia, FYR 24 29 119 9.4
Madagascar 68 23 201 36.0
Malawi 58 26 175 34.7
Malaysia 15 13 133 24.5
Maldives 57 17 252 30.7
Mali 166 45 270 51.7
Malta 27 6 139 41.6
Marshall Islands 92 21 128 64.9
Mauritania 177 37 696 68.2
Mauritius 12 7 161 28.5
Mexico 107 6 337 52.5
Micronesia, Fed. Sts 85 21 128 58.7
Moldova 109 48 220 31.2
Mongolia 70 41 192 24.6
Montenegro 81 29 320 22.3
Morocco 110 17 238 49.6
Mozambique 105 37 230 34.3
Namibia 112 37 350 22.7
Nepal 114 34 326 31.5
Netherlands 29 9 127 40.1
New Zealand 21 8 152 33.5
Nicaragua 158 42 207 65.0
Niger 151 41 270 43.8
Nigeria 155 41 956 33.8
Norway 19 4 87 41.6
Oman 10 14 62 22.0
Pakistan 162 47 560 35.3
Palau 83 11 142 75.7
Panama 172 60 431 42.0
Papua New Guinea 106 33 207 42.2
Paraguay 141 35 387 35.0
Peru 85 9 293 40.5
Philippines 143 47 193 46.6
Poland 114 18 286 43.8
Portugal 77 8 275 42.6
Puerto Rico 104 16 218 50.7
Qatar 2 4 48 11.3
Romania 136 41 216 44.2
Russian Federation 64 7 177 54.1
Rwanda 25 17 134 31.3
Samoa 79 37 224 18.9
Sao Tomé and Principe 144 42 424 32.5
Saudi Arabia 3 3 72 14.5
Senegal 178 59 666 46.0
Serbia 149 66 279 34.0
Seychelles 20 27 76 25.7
Sierra Leone 117 33 357 32.1
Singapore 5 5 82 27.6
Slovak Republic 100 20 207 47.9
Slovenia 63 11 260 34.7
Solomon Islands 26 33 80 25.3
South Africa 32 9 200 33.3
Spain 34 8 167 38.7
Sri Lanka 169 61 254 50.1
St. Kitts and Nevis 135 36 203 52.1
St. Lucia 43 32 92 34.6
St. Vincent and the Grenadines 72 36 111 38.7
Sudan 101 42 180 36.1
Suriname 49 29 199 27.9
Swaziland 58 33 104 36.8
Sweden 38 4 122 53.0
Switzerland 18 19 63 30.2
Syrian Arab Rep. 111 19 336 39.7
Taiwan, China 54 12 221 34.8
Tajikistan 175 69 224 84.5
Tanzania 133 48 172 45.3
Thailand 96 22 264 37.6
Timor Leste 61 18 276 15.1
Togo 167 53 270 49.5
Tonga 40 31 164 25.7
Trinidad and Tobago 90 39 210 29.1
Tunisia 62 8 144 62.9
Turkey 80 15 223 41.2
Uganda 93 31 213 37.1
Ukraine 165 28 491 55.4
United Arab Emirates 1 4 12 14.9
United Kingdom 16 8 110 35.5
United States 69 11 175 46.7
Uruguay 140 33 310 42.0
Uzbekistan 161 41 205 98.5
Vanuatu 28 31 120 8.4
Venezuela, RB 185 71 792 62.7
Vietnam 138 32 872 34.5
West Bank and Gaza 55 39 154 16.8
Yemen, Rep. 113 44 248 32.9
Zambia 47 37 132 15.2
Zimbabwe 134 49 242 35.8
*The overall ranking is a simple average of the percentile rankings of each of the sub-indicators. This year the rankings differ from those used by the World Bank Group in the Doing Business 2012 report which applies a threshold to the ranking for the Total Tax Rate.

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