A new report by Ernst & Young, commissioned by the American Council for Capital Formation, compares individual long-term capital gains taxes among 25 major economies of the world as well as major trading partners of the U.S:
The U.S. capital gains tax rate compares unfavorably with that of many other major economies (see Figure 1). More than half of the countries surveyed have individual capital gains tax rates lower than that of the U.S.



