On average, it now takes our case study company 267 hours to comply with its taxes, it makes 27.2 payments and pays an average Total Tax Rate of 44.7%

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On average across the eight years of the study the cost of tax, the Total Tax Rate, has fallen by almost 1% for each year; the time to comply has fallen by 54 hours (seven days); and the number of payments has fallen by 6.5


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Central Asia and Eastern Europe is the region that has seen the most reform over the eight years of the study, with the largest fall in both time to comply (-200 hours) and number of payments (-22.2)

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The study shows that lower tax rates are associated with higher economic growth, but what is higher growth most strongly related to?

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