
Source: Data extracted on 04 Jan 2016 06:49 UTC (GMT) and 07:01 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat
The OECD calculations using general government expenditure lead to an estimate of the size of government in New Zealand that is at least 10 percentage points larger at times than when using core crown expenses or total taxes as a percentage of GDP. I once asked the Treasury why was this was so as they had plotted both core crown expenses and general government expenditures as a percentage of GDP in a chart. They did not know why.
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