Tax Share | Expenditure | |
Federal States: | ||
Switzerland | 41 | 30 |
Germany | 51 | 39 |
United States | 57 | 54 |
United States: | ||
Denmark | 71 | 50 |
United Kingdom | 87 | 74 |
France | 88 | 66 |
The Netherlands | 98 | 53 |
Spain | - | 73 |
Sources: Joachim Jens Hesse (ed.), Local Government and Urban Affairs in International Perspective (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1991); Arend Lijphart, Democracies, Patterns of Majoritarian and Consensus Government in Twenty-One Countries (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1984), p. 178.