Most of the countries are getting it wrong with the thinking that taxing more is going to make the economy grow well. There are basic things such as improving the Per Capita income of the citizens and fixing some institutions. When the people are able to pay up and get value for what they buy, then there is hope that the global economy will improve.
This is one of the consequences of having a bad government. The first thing they think of is pinning everything on the citizens by taxing them in a very bad way. In my country, our president just removed the Fuel Subsidy and that put an untold hardship on the people with the economy in general.