| Afghanistan | No | |
| Albania | No | |
| Algeria | No | |
| Andorra | No | |
| Angola | No | |
| Anguilla | Yes | |
| Antigua and Barbuda | No | |
| Argentina | No | |
| Armenia | No | |
| Aruba | No | |
| Australia | No | |
| Austria | No | |
| Azerbaijan | No | |
| Bahamas | Yes | |
| Bahrain | Yes | |
| Bangladesh | No | |
| Barbados | No | |
| Belarus | No | |
| Belgium | No | |
| Belize | No | |
| Benin | No | |
| Bermuda | Yes | |
| Bhutan | No | |
| Bolivia | No | |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | No | |
| Botswana | No | |
| Brazil | No | |
| British Virgin Islands | Yes | |
| Brunei | Yes | |
| Bulgaria | No | |
| Burkina Faso | No | |
| Burundi | No | |
| Cambodia | No | |
| Cameroon | No | |
| Canada | No | |
| Cayman Islands | Yes | |
| Central African Republic | No | |
| Chad | No | |
| Chile | No | |
| China | No | |
| Colombia | No | |
| Comoros | No | |
| Costa Rica | No | |
| Croatia | No | |
| Cuba | No | |
| Curacao | No | |
| Cyprus | No | |
| Cyprus | No | |
| Czech Republic | No | |
| DR Congo | No | |
| Denmark | No | |
| Djibouti | No | |
| Dominica | No | |
| Dominican Republic | No | |
| Ecuador | No | |
| Egypt | No | |
| El Salvador | No | |
| Equatorial Guinea | No | |
| Eritrea | No | |
| Estonia | No | |
| Eswatini | No | |
| Ethiopia | No | |
| Fiji | No | |
| Finland | No | |
| France | No | |
| Gabon | No | |
| Gambia | No | |
| Georgia | No | |
| Germany | No | |
| Ghana | No | |
| Greece | No | |
| Grenada | No | |
| Guam | No | |
| Guatemala | No | |
| Guinea | No | |
| Guinea Bissau | No | |
| Guyana | No | |
| Haiti | No | |
| Honduras | No | |
| Hong Kong | No | |
| Hungary | No | |
| Iceland | No | |
| India | No | |
| Indonesia | No | |
| Iran | No | |
| Iraq | No | |
| Ireland | No | |
| Isle Of Man | No | |
| Israel | No | |
| Italy | No | |
| Ivory Coast | No | |
| Jamaica | No | |
| Japan | No | |
| Jordan | No | |
| Kazakhstan | No | |
| Kenya | No | |
| Kosovo | No | |
| Kuwait | Yes | |
| Kyrgyzstan | No | |
| Laos | No | |
| Latvia | No | |
| Lebanon | No | |
| Lesotho | No | |
| Liberia | No | |
| Libya | No | |
| Liechtenstein | No | |
| Lithuania | No | |
| Luxembourg | No | |
| Macau | No | |
| Madagascar | No | |
| Malawi | No | |
| Malaysia | No | |
| Maldives | Yes | |
| Mali | No | |
| Malta | No | |
| Marshall Islands | No | |
| Mauritania | No | |
| Mauritius | No | |
| Mexico | No | |
| Micronesia | No | |
| Moldova | No | |
| Monaco | Yes | |
| Mongolia | No | |
| Montenegro | No | |
| Montserrat | No | |
| Morocco | No | |
| Mozambique | No | |
| Myanmar | No | |
| Namibia | No | |
| Nauru | Yes | |
| Nepal | No | |
| Netherlands | No | |
| New Caledonia | No | |
| New Zealand | No | |
| Nicaragua | No | |
| Niger | No | |
| Nigeria | No | |
| North Korea | No | |
| North Macedonia | No | |
| Northern Mariana Islands | No | |
| Norway | No | |
| Oman | Yes | |
| Pakistan | No | |
| Palau | No | |
| Palestine | No | |
| Panama | No | |
| Papua New Guinea | No | |
| Paraguay | No | |
| Peru | No | |
| Philippines | No | |
| Poland | No | |
| Portugal | No | |
| Puerto Rico | No | |
| Qatar | Yes | |
| Republic of the Congo | No | |
| Romania | No | |
| Russia | No | |
| Rwanda | No | |
| Saint Barthelemy | Yes | |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | Yes | |
| Saint Lucia | No | |
| Saint Martin | No | |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | No | |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | No | |
| San Marino | No | |
| Sao Tome and Principe | No | |
| Saudi Arabia | Yes | |
| Senegal | No | |
| Serbia | No | |
| Seychelles | No | |
| Sierra Leone | No | |
| Singapore | No | |
| Sint Maarten | No | |
| Slovakia | No | |
| Slovenia | No | |
| Solomon Islands | No | |
| Somalia | Yes | |
| South Africa | No | |
| South Korea | No | |
| South Sudan | No | |
| Spain | No | |
| Sri Lanka | No | |
| Sudan | No | |
| Suriname | No | |
| Sweden | No | |
| Switzerland | No | |
| Syria | No | |
| Taiwan | No | |
| Tajikistan | No | |
| Tanzania | No | |
| Thailand | No | |
| Timor Leste | No | |
| Togo | No | |
| Trinidad and Tobago | No | |
| Tunisia | No | |
| Turkey | No | |
| Turkmenistan | No | |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | Yes | |
| Uganda | No | |
| Ukraine | No | |
| United Arab Emirates | Yes | |
| United Kingdom | No | |
| United States | No | |
| Uruguay | No | |
| Uzbekistan | No | |
| Vanuatu | Yes | |
| Vatican City | Yes | |
| Venezuela | No | |
| Vietnam | No | |
| Western Sahara | Yes | |
| Yemen | No | |
| Zambia | No | |
| Zimbabwe | No |
Income tax, serving as a critical fund source for most world governments, is a universal storyline in over half the world's countries—comprising approximately 80% of all government revenues. Interestingly, there exists a small but significant set of countries that deviate from this storyline; these are the nations which have discarded the system of levying national income taxes from their citizens. These countries, fascinatingly, manage to sustain their economies, usually through nationalized revenue-intensive sectors like oil or tourism or by implementing other types of taxes. Key findings from the data include:
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