Sunil Jain: Chidambaram scores

PERSPECTIVES

NOT SO TAXING (India does well on ease of payments and not so badly on most tax rates)
	No. of hours to pay tax	Total Tax Rate (%)
		Corporate	Labour	Others	Average
Brazil	2600	21.1	40.6	7.5	69.2
Russia	448	14.0	31.8	5.7	51.4
India	271	19.6	18.4	32.5	70.6
China	872	19.9	46.0	8.0	73.9
UK	105	21.3	11.3	3.2	35.7
USA	325	27.1	9.6	9.5	46.2
Korea	290	18.3	11.4	5.2	34.9
Malaysia	166	19.1	15.6	1.4	36.0
Indonesia	266	26.6	10.6	0.1	37.3
Source: Paying Taxes 2008, World Bank/PricewaterhouseCoopers