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Taxed Like Europe? What the World’s Tax Rankings Really Say About the Caribbean
October 5, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown
The finding Jamaica collects tax equal to 25.6% of its GDP — more, as a share of its economy, than the United States (19.5%), Germany (23.0%), Japan (20.2%) or Switzerland (20.0%). Barbados, at 27.8%, collects more than Greece and sits on the global top-20 list beside the Nordic welfare states. That is the Caribbean story...
