I haven’t looked into the Russian tax code in detail, but a cursory look at this list suggests that Russia is among the least bad, beaten mostly by a few small islands, the Gulf monarchies, and Somalia (which, of course, have other problems).
I do approve of ranking countries’ goodness/badness according to what fraction of your money they take from you… But in this context, I think you would then want to multiply by “the average amount of evil that the country does per tax dollar”. (Of course, there is no widely accepted objective metric for that.)
I haven’t looked into the Russian tax code in detail, but a cursory look at this list suggests that Russia is among the least bad, beaten mostly by a few small islands, the Gulf monarchies, and Somalia (which, of course, have other problems).
I do approve of ranking countries’ goodness/badness according to what fraction of your money they take from you… But in this context, I think you would then want to multiply by “the average amount of evil that the country does per tax dollar”. (Of course, there is no widely accepted objective metric for that.)