Bach, Stefan - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 46/48, pp. 407-413
The tax and fiscal reforms headed by German finance minister Matthias Erzberger in 1919 and 1920 fundamentally reshaped … German public finances. The total tax revenue as a percentage of GDP, or tax-to-GDP ratio, doubled and increased continually … until the end of World War II. Since the 1950s, the tax-to-GDP ratio has remained between 22 and 24 percent of GDP most of …