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A good way to normalize it for comparison is tax income as a proportion of GDP[0]

The table on wikipedia[1] shows Norway, Finland, Denmark and Sweden at all over 50%. Germany at 44.5% while the UK is 34.4%, Australia at 34.3% and United States at 26%

[0] https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=REV#

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_reven...