OECD Taxing Wages 2017 report gives details of taxes paid on wages in OECD countries. It covers personal income taxes and social security contributions paid by employees, social security contributions and payroll taxes paid by employers, and cash benefits received by in-work families.In the Czech Republic, tax wedge rose by more than 5 percentage points in the 2000-2016 period, the report says.

The OECD's Taxation and Skills Study measures how tax and spending policies impact financial incentives to invest in skills, and how the costs and returns to skills are shared between students and governments. Details on the Czech Republic inside.

With a number of important recent and upcoming developments in the OECD's international tax work, the OECD's Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (CTPA) gave the latest tax update.  

The Czech Republic ranked 19th out of 35 OECD countries in terms of the tax-to-GDP ratio in 2015, compared with 18th place in 2014. The VAT Revenue Ratio for the Czech Republic was 0.58 in 2014, above the OECD average of 0.56, recently published OECD tax publications show.