Purpose: The tax burden, defined as the ratio of the collected taxes in a particular period against the total product, is commonly used to determine the effect offiscal and tax policies on the socioeconomic structure.The purpose of this study is to examine how the changes in some macroeconomic indicators affect the taxburden. Design/methodology/approach – System generalized method of moments approach is used for 34 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) members in the period of 1993-2016. Findings – Based on the researchfindings, variables such as income per capita, foreign trading volume, thecapacity of employment, unemployment and economic share of industry sector effect tax burden in astatistically significant and positive direction. The reason that lies behind the positive effect of unemploymenton tax burden is the fact that the sense of social state is not...

Purpose: The tax burden, defined as the ratio of the collected taxes in a particular period against the total product, is commonly used to determine the effect of fiscal and tax policies on the socioeconomic structure. The purpose of this study is to examine how the changes in some macroeconomic indicators affect the tax burden. Design/methodology/approach: System generalized method of moments approach is used for 34 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) members in the period of 1993-2016. Findings: Based on the research findings, variables such as income per capita, foreign trading volume, the capacity of employment, unemployment and economic share of industry sector effect tax burden in a statistically significant and positive direction. The reason that lies behind the positive effect of unemployment on tax burden is the fact that the sense of social state is no...