[kylecordes]

I think the general notion on such lists is that you can think of numerous different ways to rate how highly taxed in nation is. You can therefore come up with many different lists that have different countries in the top few positions. Simply pulling out a well-chosen list allows one to make the claim that a country to be criticized is the highest taxed.

I'd also like to see such a list, but with several different measures of highly taxed, and some plausibly unbiased attempt to aggregate them together. I am curious how the overall taxation compares among countries.

[KGIII]

If you're in the US, you probably pay a much lower percentage than you do in many other nations. That much I can establish.

Wikipedia has some good tables but, like you suggest, compiling that data is not that easy due to biases. There are also different names for the taxes, different categories, differences in reporting, etc... About all I can conclude is that I don't pay much, compared to what I'd pay elsewhere, in taxes.

I actually don't mind paying taxes. I do mind how the money is spent, but that veers into a digression and politics. So, I'll skip that for today.

[setr]

Wouldn't the correct thing be to find some list that just tracks the final tax to each individual, averaged and bucketed over some range of income, ignoring individual reasons for taxes?

It doesn't immediately seem that difficult for a group to gather, if they're interested in declaring average tax by country; and it seems like an interesting enough question that someone should have done it by now