Greece recorded the European Union’s highest implicit tax rate on labour in 2024, the largest increase in the share of VAT in total tax revenue over the past decade, and the highest environmental tax revenues as a percentage of GDP, according to the European Commission’s Annual Report on Taxation 2026.
The report, published by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union (DG TAXUD), also showed that Greece ranked third in the EU in 2024 for the share of recurrent property taxes in total tax revenue.
However, in terms of overall tax revenue as a share of GDP, Greece ranked ninth among the EU’s 27 member states in 2024, with tax revenues amounting to 40.0% of GDP, above the EU average of 39.4%.
According to the Commission’s projections, that ratio is expected to decline by 0.7 percentage points by 2027 to 39.3% of GDP, marking the third-largest decrease in the bloc. Greece would consequently fall to 12th place, below the projected EU average of 40.1%.
The report’s main findings are as follows:
- Greece recorded the highest implicit tax rate on labour in the EU.
- In the period 2014-2024, Greece recorded the largest increase in the share of VAT revenue in total tax revenue among EU member states.
- Greece was one of only three EU member states where the share of consumption taxes in total tax revenue did not decline between 2014 and 2024, while the share fell in all other member states.
- Between 2014 and 2024, Greece recorded the second-largest decline in the implicit tax rate on consumption across the EU.
- In 2024, Greece ranked second in the EU in reliance on environmental taxes and first in environmental tax revenue as a percentage of GDP.
- Greece ranked third in the EU in the share of recurrent property taxes in total tax revenue in 2024, although the share recorded the second-largest decline among member states between 2014 and 2024.
- Greece has the third-highest proportion of citizens in the EU who rely on tax advisers or accountants to file their tax returns.
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