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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410366
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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
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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
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402637
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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
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404189
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014405035
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United Germany : the first five years ; performance and policy issues
Corker, Robert (contributor); Feldman, Robert A. (contributor) - International Monetary Fund - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000543705
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Advancing the frontiers of monetary policy
Adrian, Tobias (ed.); Laxton, Douglas (ed.);  … - 2018
Inflation-forecast targeting is state of the art for monetary policy. This book explores first principles, including …Part I. The frontiers of monetary policymaking. 1. An overview of inflation-forecast targeting -- Part II. Principles … and practices of inflation-forecast targeting. 2. First principles -- 3. Managing expectations -- 4. Nuts and bolts of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874333
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Staff Studies for the World Econ Outlook
International Monetary Fund - 1987
This paper reviews the long-term growth performance of the major industrial countries and discusses some of the many factors that have been identified as possible sources of the marked slowdown in growth since the early 1970s. According to the view of different demographic developments across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400806