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One might assume that MTVA’s financial strength is an exception in an industry plagued by dwindling revenue and broken business models.
Today, government budget allocations are among the leading sources of media revenue.
A limit on the “structural deficit” means that a country can run a deficit above the limit to the extent – and only to the extent – that the gap between revenue and spending is cyclical (that is, its economy is operating below potential due to temporary negative shocks).
Forecasts for tax revenue and budget surpluses are correspondingly optimistic and so hide the need for fiscal adjustment.
But a significant part of the JSA’s revenue, if not a majority of it, still comes from ticket sales, despite the big fees that NHK, Japan’s public television, pays for broadcast rights.
But Japan’s long-floundering economy has eaten revenue from traditional activities that required muscle, such as gambling, prostitution, and loan-sharking.
Corruption on every level of the state bureaucracy is evident, while the state has consumed the economy’s oil revenue with little to show for it in terms of investment or improved services.
The company’s revenue varies with the global price of copper, yielding higher government revenues in some years and declines – for example, this year – when the global price is down.
The government follows a wise fiscal strategy that involves budget surpluses in years when copper revenue is high, with the additional funds channeled to a national stabilization fund.
Half of tax revenue is collected with a value-added tax, which is essentially a tax on consumption.
He was now “convinced that the substitution of machines for human labor is often very injurious to the class of laborers,” that the “same cause which may increase the net revenue of the country, may at the same time render the population redundant.”
With public debt service (principal plus interest) projected to reach nearly 40% of government revenue in 2016, Puerto Rico needs a new set of economic policies.
Demand for loans was low, leaving it short of revenue.
Moreover, it has proven unable to speed the pace of privatization (which would add to government revenue), partly due to barriers thrown up by India's bureaucracy.
Of course, a country does not necessarily spend more on such items simply because it has increased revenue, and, even if it does, the programs it chooses to fund may not be effective.
Similarly, the government cut the department governors’ revenue in order to finance an expanded pension plan and weaken them politically and economically.
The resolution bans North Korean exports of coal, iron, iron ore, lead, lead ore, and seafood products, which together account for one third of the country’s already meager annual export revenue of $3 billion.
The revenue systems needed to invest in better housing, modern transport, communication networks, industrial hubs, and enterprise development require strengthening, but they are not dysfunctional.
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, despite concerted efforts at eradication and crop substitution, Afghanistan produced 87% of the world’s opium in 2005 – roughly 4.1 tons – generating $2.7 billion of illegal revenue, which amounts to roughly 52% of the country’s GDP.
Moreover, by putting a price on pollution, governments can generate revenue for investments like clean energy, schools, and health care, making it a double win.
My government is looking for ways to raise revenue to pay for services, but it is unrealistic and even negative to exact more taxes from an already overburdened people.
To put that 4% of GDP in perspective, the federal government’s total revenue from the personal income tax is less than 9% of GDP, implying that nearly half is spent on these means-tested programs.
This would include contracts and licenses; details about how blocks – and exploration and production rights – are auctioned and awarded; revenue figures, to ensure that companies comply with the “Publish What You Pay” principle; environmental-impact studies (offshore and onshore); and reports on how the government allocates its revenues.
In particular, government expenditure should be determined by an estimate of permanent income (including the sustainable contribution from resource revenues), while cyclical revenue would be saved in a sovereign-wealth fund.
Taxation remains the dominant source of government revenue in most developed countries.
But the role of debt finance has been growing – and, with it, the need to refinance old debt when total expenditure, including debt service, exceeds total revenue.
The OECD estimates that a dollar of aid spent on improving tax collection yields an average of $350 in revenue.
Trade boosts domestic production and generates revenue that can help pay for development.
In order to do this, we must take back as state revenue the profits from the exploitation of our natural wealth, double the budget, and guarantee everyone's real right to free education and healthcare.
Revenue will grow consistently only if the tax base – that is, the economy – grows.
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