In reaction to the fiscal difficulties experienced by state governments over the past three years, several politicians and academics proposed that Congress legislate a new chapter to the Bankruptcy Code under which the financial obligations of a state may be restructured. This essay is...

This paper makes five contributions to designing a new fiscal regime for Scotland:1). It provides the intellectual case for fiscal autonomy in Scotland, and examines explicitly how far autonomy should go. 2). It provides a blueprint for how the tax system could be devolved, and explains why.3)....

As of 1 November 2012, the federal budget was executed with a surplus of 1.4% of GDP. The size of federal budget revenue over the period of January – October 2012 amounted to Rb 10,455.4bn, or 20.9% of GDP, that of federal budget expenditure – to Rb 9,735.8bn, or 19.5% of GDP. On 30 October...

According to the Federal Treasury's estimates, the volume of federal budget revenue over the first 7 months of 2013 dropped by 2.2 p.p. of GDP on the corresponding period of 2012. As a positive fact, it can be noted that the rate of decline in the volume of federal budget expenditure as a share...

According to the data recently released by the Federal Treasury, over January–June 2015, the federal budget revenues contracted 1.9 p.p. of GDP, and expenditures went up 2.6 p.p. of GDP on the same period of the previous year. Revenues and expenditures of the consolidated budgets of the...