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Tying governments' hands in commodity taxation

Schuknecht, Ludger - 1998 - Manuscript date: May, 1997; Revised: May, 1998

In the 1970s, taxation of "windfall" profits from primary products and intervention in trade and production has tempted governments into expansionary fiscal policies while stifling the private sector and depressing growth. However, the experience of the recent coffee boom has so far been more...

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Tying governments' hands in commodity taxation

Schuknecht, Ludger - In: Journal of African economies 8 (1999) 2, pp. 152-181

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Fiscal Sustainability : The Case of Eritrea

Yamauchi, Ayumu - 2006

The paper examines fiscal sustainability issues for the case of Eritrea but has wider implications for addressing fiscal and debt sustainability. It begins with a formal definition and explanation of analytical sustainability indicators, followed by an assessment of the causes of fiscal deficits...

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The Impact of Public Budgets on Overall Productivity Growth

Handler, Heinz - 2011

To fulfill their tasks, governments rely on public expenditures and taxes. Both influence the incentives and shape the decisions and actions of private economic agents. As governments resort to both instruments simultaneously, their combined theoretical impact on economic performance is a priori...

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Tying governments' hands in commodity taxation

Schuknecht, Ludger - 1998

In the 1970s, taxation of windfall profits from primary products and intervention in trade and production has tempted governments into expansionary fiscal policies while stifling the private sector and depressing growth. However, the experience of the recent coffee boom has so far been more...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330185

Tying governments' hands in commodity taxation

Schuknecht, Ludger - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 1998

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How do the tax burden and the fiscal space in Latin America look like? : evidence through Laffer Curves

Lozano-Espitia, Ignacio; Arias-Rodríguez, Fernando - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 30 (2021), pp. 1-26

How much fiscal space do Latin American countries have to increase their tax burdens in the long term? This paper … 2017. Our findings allow us to compare the recent effective tax rates on factor returns against those which would maximize … the government's revenues, and therefore to derive the potential tax-related fiscal space. Results suggest that joint …

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