I thought some of you would find this (one year old) chart interesting.
I was a bit surprised to see such a high % for Belgium and Germany while they don't seem to be complaining too much...
France used to be higher; I remember during my visits to Paris in earlier times, the Value Added Tax (la TVA) used to be 33%.
I was also surprised to see that the US pays 2% more taxes than Canada.
China is at 11%.
No taxes in India....

I found the other countries of Scandinavia at http://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/taxing-wages-sweden.pdf

Surprised to see the UK 23 odd percent tax. Such a small country bristling with nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers- where does the money come from? When the yanks say "get your arses into gear you limey bastards we have a war to fight!"-we always seem to raise thousands of tanks and do as we're told.

i wonder how much tax the wife pays in China? With commission she gets £5,500 net ,give or take about 300 every month. Quite a lot for a Chinese but if you speak 3 languages fluently (4 including Mandarin) and you have lived in UK for 7 years you don't settle for scrag-end.