Editing Tax Freedom Day (section)

===European Union===

A 2010 study published in L'Anglophone,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.langlophone.com/20100526_edition/20100526_EU27_data_table_flipped.pdf |title=Wages and Taxes for the Average Joe in the EU 27 |access-date=June 8, 2010 |archive-date=October 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111016173712/http://www.langlophone.com/20100526_edition/20100526_EU27_data_table_flipped.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> a Brussels newspaper, compared the tax burdens of "Average Joes" in each of the 27 EU member states and projected the Tax Freedom Day for workers earning a typical wage. Income taxes, social security contributions (by the employee and the employer) and projected VAT contributions were included in the calculations.

Regarding the discrepancy between their calculation of August 3 as the typical Belgian worker's Tax Freedom Day and that of PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC), L'Anglophone's authors wrote:<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.langlophone.com/fullbn.php?id=419 |title=Belgian Workers' Wages are Highest-Taxed in Western Europe |access-date=June 8, 2010 |archive-date=June 14, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100614021100/http://www.langlophone.com/fullbn.php?id=419 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
{{Blockquote|[PWC's] figures count revenue from all taxes (including those on corporate profits, petrol, cigarettes, &c.) and thus present a more complete picture of the country’s total tax burden," adding that it is "an average applied to all Belgians – not all Belgian workers; in 2008, less than half of Belgium’s population (4.99 million working out of 10.67 million citizens) was legally working. Consequently, a huge share of Belgium’s tax burden is borne by the working population.}}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ 2010 Tax Freedom Days for the "Average Joe" in the European Union, as published in L'Anglophone
! Country !! Day of year !! % burden !! class="unsortable" |Date of year
|-
|Austria || 191 || 52% || July 10
|-
|Belgium || 215 || 59% || August 3
|-
|Bulgaria || 145 || 40% || May 25
|-
|Cyprus  || 72 || 19% || March 13
|-
|Czech Rep.  || 165 || 45% || June 14
|-
|Denmark  || 168 || 46% || June 17
|-
|Estonia  || 150 || 41% || May 30
|-
|Finland  || 166 || 45% || June 15
|-
|France  || 207 || 56% || July 26
|-
|Germany  || 200 || 55% || July 19
|-
|Greece  || 164 || 45% || June 13
|-
|Hungary  || 218 || 59% || August 6
|-
|Ireland  || 117 || 32% || April 27
|-
|Italy  || 169 || 46% || June 18
|-
|Latvia  || 161 || 44% || June 10
|-
|Lithuania || 167 || 45% || May 20
|-
|Luxembourg || 135 || 37% || May 15
|-
|Malta  || 99 || 27% || April 9
|-
|Netherlands  || 184 || 50% || July 3
|-
|Poland  || 160 || 44% || June 9
|-
|Portugal  || 150 || 41% || May 30
|-
|Romania  || 178 || 49% || June 27
|-
|Slovakia || 167 || 46% || June 16
|-
|Slovenia || 164 || 45% || June 13
|-
|Spain  || 136 || 37% || May 16
|-
|Sweden  || 181 || 49% || June 30
|-
|United Kingdom  || 134 || 36% || May 13
|-
|}