RationaleFollowing the COVID-19 pandemic, tax revenue has shown strong dynamism, increasing as a proportion of GDP by 3.7 percentage points since 2019. Understanding the nature of this dynamism is key to assessing Spanish fiscal policy.Takeaways•This article breaks down revenue growth into...

We assess the Covid-19 pandemic's implications for state government sales and income tax revenues. We estimate that the economic declines implied by recent forecasts from the Congressional Budget Office will lead to a shortfall of roughly $106 billion in states' sales and income tax revenues for...

We assess the Covid-19 pandemic's implications for state government sales and income tax revenues. We estimate that the economic declines implied by recent forecasts from the Congressional Budget Office will lead to a shortfall of roughly $106 billion in states' sales and income tax revenues for...

The decline in VAT revenue during the Covid-19 recession has been unexpectedly lower than the drop in household consumption. In the first half of 2021, VAT bounced back to pre-crisis levels even though aggregate consumption had still not recovered. According to our analysis, this result...