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Revenue Mobilization in Developing Countries

International Monetary Fund - 2011

The Fund has long played a lead role in supporting developing countries' efforts to improve their revenue mobilization. This paper draws on that experience to review issues and good practice, and to assess prospects in this key area

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Guarding Against Fiscal Risks in Hong Kong SAR

International Monetary Fund - 2007

Hong Kong SAR''s government faces the dual challenges of volatile revenue and medium term spending pressures arising from a rapidly aging population. Age-related spending pressures raise long-run sustainability concerns, while revenue volatility creates risks to service provision, possibly...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400988

Revenue Administration : Taxpayer Audit--Use of Indirect Methods

International Monetary Fund - 2010

This technical note examines the use of indirect methods in a taxpayer audit. Indirect methods involve the determination of tax liabilities through an analysis of a taxpayer’s financial affairs utilizing information from a range of sources beyond the taxpayer’s declaration and formal books...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402636

Revenue Administration : Taxpayer Audit--Development of Effective Plans

International Monetary Fund - 2010

This technical note describes how to develop effective plans for a taxpayer audit. The note highlights that a well-managed audit program plays a major role in managing compliance. An effective audit program will have significantly wider impacts than just raising revenue directly from audit...

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Islamic Republic of Afghanistan : Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund - 2008

Fiscal sustainability is one of several policy objectives that Afghanistan is expected to achieve in the context of the Poverty Reduction Growth Facility-supported program. There is a need to develop a comprehensive financial sector strategy aimed at deepening financial intermediation and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014406866

Trinidad and tobago : The Energy Boom and Proposals for a Sustainable Fiscal Policy

International Monetary Fund - 2005

Trinidad and Tobago is experiencing an energy boom stronger than the ones in 1970s and 1980s. The main fiscal policy challenge is to ensure that the increased revenues from the ultimately exhaustible resources are used in a way that protects the competitiveness of the nonenergy sector, builds...

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Islamic Republic of Afghanistan : Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

International Monetary Fund - 2006

This Selected Issues paper provides a preliminary view on Afghanistan’s external competitiveness through a review of some macroeconomic, microeconomic, and institutional indicators. It discusses the rebuilding of domestic revenue, and analyzes the macroeconomic impact of the drug economy and...

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Temporary Import Tariffs, the Real Exchange Rate and the Current Account

International Monetary Fund - 1988

In this paper a general equilibrium intertemporal model with optimizing consumers and producers is developed to analyze how the imposition of a temporary import tariff affects the path of real exchange rates and the current account. The model is completely real, and considers a small open...

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Tariffs and the Macroeconomy : Some Empirical Evidence

International Monetary Fund - 1989

This paper examines the macroeconomic impact of tariffs. Existing theoretical models do not provide clear … the hypothesis that tariffs have no statistically significant impact on the trade balance, the real exchange rate, or the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396243

Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust : 2017 Borrowing Agreements with the Bank of Spain, the Government of Japan and the People's Bank of China

International Monetary Fund - 2017

Spain (Spain), amendments to the 2010 NPA with the Government of Japan (Japan), and a new note purchase agreement (NPA) with … the People's Bank of China (China). The new borrowing agreement with Spain, the amendments to the NPA with Japan, and the … February 22, 2017, for Spain; April 20, 2017, for Japan; and April 21, 2017, for China. Pursuant to Section III, paragraph 2 of …

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