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The fiscal bureaucracy, too, is being modernized, with the deployment of electronic tax notifications and other administrative reforms boosting
revenue
collection while diminishing the size of the informal economy.
This year’s record harvest of 6,100 tons of opium will generate more than $3 billion in illicit
revenue
– equivalent to almost half of Afghanistan’s GDP.
Revenue
from natural-resource exports represented 25% of total income in the public sector in 2008.
The new plan includes a relatively bright forecast for fiscal year 2019, and foresees economic growth and higher government
revenue
from then on, despite larger doses of fiscal austerity and declining federal aid.
As the industry and European regulators now reflect on this dismal state of affairs and search for solutions, they should consider banks’
revenue
distribution – including employee bonuses and shareholder dividends – as part of the problem.
Revenue
distribution is one primary reason for European banks’ capital shortfalls.
These are hard promises to keep, for the simple reason that a budget deficit equals government spending minus tax
revenue.
So, too, his plan to eliminate enough tax expenditures to offset the $5 trillion in
revenue
lost from cutting marginal tax rates by 20%, while refusing to say which tax loopholes he would close.
The conjurer thus resorts to the rosy scenario: since he cannot find enough tax loopholes to eliminate, he must claim that what he meant by closing the
revenue
gap was that stronger economic growth will bring in the additional
revenue.
Right on cue, it is time for the famous Laffer hypothesis – the proposition, identified with the economist Arthur Laffer and “supply-side economics,” that reductions in tax rates are like magic beans: they so stimulate economic growth that total tax
revenue
(the tax rate times income) goes up rather than down.
The audience is now told that losing tax
revenue
and widening the budget deficit was the plan all along.
Russia is also economically weak because of its dependence on oil
revenue
at a time when prices are down dramatically.
Pensioners do spend the money they receive, so this
revenue
isn’t wasted; but it could be better spent to propel stronger economic growth.
The answer is yes: there is now bipartisan agreement on the need for a “balanced” approach that includes
revenue
increases and spending cuts.
Because tax expenditures are so large, limiting them could raise a significant amount of additional
revenue
that could be used both for deficit reduction and to finance across-the-board cuts in income-tax rates.
Reducing large regressive tax expenditures like preferential tax rates for capital gains and dividends and deductions for state and local taxes, and replacing deductions with progressive tax credits, could generate enough
revenue
to finance rate cuts for all taxpayers, increase the tax code’s overall progressivity, and contribute meaningfully to deficit reduction.
Nonetheless, some tax reforms are likely to be a key component of a bipartisan deficit-reduction deal, because they provide Republicans who oppose increases in tax rates for high-income taxpayers with an ideologically preferable way to increase
revenue
from them.
Fifth, the higher the unemployment rate goes, the wider budget deficits will become, as automatic stabilizers reduce
revenue
and increase spending (for example, on unemployment benefits).
The partly state-owned Deutsche Telekom hates that it does not earn additional
revenue
when people use its network to make calls on Skype, send messages on WhatsApp, and watch videos on Netflix and YouTube.
But the Tea Party faction of the Republican Party cares more about small government than anything else: its members insist, above all, that federal tax
revenue
never be permitted to exceed 18% of GDP.
With the import tariffs on steel just announced, the US will at least obtain some
revenue.
Though a precise comparison is difficult, there is no doubt that China’s capital coefficient is much higher, implying a larger gap between the growth rate of capital intensity (the total amount of capital needed per dollar of revenue) and that of labor productivity.
Although the tax package that Trump signed into law last December front-loaded tax cuts and is now helping the economy to grow, government
revenue
has yet to respond much to that growth.
But paying decent salaries for honest government bureaucrats and judges requires tax
revenue.
Thanks to President John Magufuli’s effort to mobilize more domestic
revenue
to support increased development spending, the economy is doing well.
California’s government collects about one-half of its income-tax
revenue
from the top 1% of the state’s taxpayers.
But the system’s extreme progressivity makes proceeds so volatile that the state continually experiences boom-bust cycles of rapidly rising revenue, inevitably followed by collapse.
The
revenue
is all spent on the upswing, forcing disruptive emergency cutbacks on the way down.
Maximizing public
revenue
is not always consistent with the goal of social and economic stability.
On the
revenue
side, reform should rescind all links between national treasuries and the EU budget, so that the cost of Europe is made directly visible to the Union’s citizens.
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