Greek families have the second highest tax burden in the OECD

Greece's taxes and social security contributions put this country second among the 36 member-states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in terms of dues to the state for workers with children.

The figures from the latest report by Washington, DC-based think tank the Tax Foundation, presented in Greece by the Markos Dragoumis Center for Liberal Studies (KEFiM), highlight the huge pressure on Greek households, whether they have children or not. It found that a worker without children paid 40.8% of their gross takings in taxes and contributions in 2019, compared with an OECD average rate of 36%.

The report showed that gross revenues were absorbed as follows: 8.2% went toward income tax, the contributions withheld from workers' salaries came to 12.7% and the contributions paid by employers for their workers to 19.9%.

For a family...