Australia vs Canada: Taxes on income, profits, and capital gains, Transactions
Taxes on income, profits, and capital gains, Transactions over time
- Australia
- Canada
How they compare
Canada currently reports 564.48 billion against 519.03 billion in Australia, a difference of 45.45 billion.
That makes Canada's figure about 1.1 times Australia's.
Across all 17 years both countries report, Canada has been ahead every year.
Australia ranks 13th and Canada ranks 12th of 35 countries.
Canada has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Australia | Canada | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 201.37 billion | 243.66 billion | 42.29 billion | Canada |
| 2010s | 256.92 billion | 309.96 billion | 53.05 billion | Canada |
| 2020s | 433.04 billion | 495.73 billion | 62.69 billion | Canada |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher taxes on income, profits, and capital gains, transactions, Australia or Canada?
- Canada, at 564.48 billion against 519.03 billion in Australia as of 2025.
- What is the difference in taxes on income, profits, and capital gains, transactions between Australia and Canada?
- 45.45 billion, with Canada ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and Canada?
- 17 years are reported by both, from 2009 to 2025.
- How do Australia and Canada rank globally for taxes on income, profits, and capital gains, transactions?
- Australia ranks 13th and Canada ranks 12th of 35 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- International Monetary Fund, published as Taxes on income, profits, and capital gains, Transactions (Statement of operations, General government). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
The Government Finance Statistics (GFS) includes government revenues and expenditures, government net lending / net borrowing (the surplus / deficit) financing transactions and balance sheet data on government assets and liabilities. Statistics are available for different levels of government including budgetary central government, central government and general government.