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To meet its major challenges, America will have to cut major government programs on which many people rely – the two programs that affect older Americans, Social Security and Medicare, in particular – and increase revenue by raising some taxes.
A cap of €2.30 per person, hastily proposed after the initial public outcry, and before the proposal was withdrawn, would have done little to ease that burden on low-income Internet users, while drastically reducing the program’s overall revenue.
Cash-strapped governments adopt these taxes because ICT goods and services are an easy target for revenue authorities.
Governments need revenue, but how they raise it shapes their countries’ economies by encouraging some transactions and discouraging others.
The main problem in Russia's economy at the moment is that both Soviet and Russian borrowings have totaled 158 billion dollars, which means that Russia with its annual budget revenue of 20 billion dollars, is incapable of paying back its debts because, for the next 12 years, its annual debt-servicing payments are to be from 12 to 17 billion dollars.
Thirty years of macroeconomic upheaval in Latin America can be boiled down to a simple lesson: governments throughout the region are too large compared with their ability to raise revenue through normal types of taxation.
Until this vital issue is solved, crises will be the norm, because the fundamental economic choice these countries face will continue to be one between raising revenue through inflation or letting debt grow.
Across South America there is an almost perfect correlation between the revenue gained from the inflation tax and various measures of poverty, because the poor are the least able to protect themselves from the inflation tax.
Raising "normal" tax revenue remains an unrealistic option in most Latin American countries.
After all, a country’s natural resources should belong to all of its people, and the “rents” that they generate provide a source of revenue that could be used to reduce inequality.
In addition, measures should target the Sudanese government where it hurts most: revenue and foreign investment inflows into Sudan’s petroleum sector, and supply of goods and services to that and associated sectors.
These benchmarks include research and development expenditures as a share of revenue, the number of patents registered, broadband coverage ratios, automation diffusion rates, reductions in energy intensity and CO2 emissions, and so forth.
By contrast, partnerships are strengthened if companies and governments recognize their shared interest in durable, mutually beneficial contracts that ensure stable revenue streams from projects.
Budget cuts reduced demand and output, which caused revenue to collapse, making additional budget cuts inevitable.
Because of continuing increases in life expectancy, the number of eligible retirees is rising more rapidly than the tax revenue available to finance benefits.
It is better to tax firms lightly and keep them in your jurisdiction than it is to forego that revenue entirely.
Fiscal consolidation therefore requires additional revenue as well as slower growth in entitlement spending.
The challenge facing US politicians after the election will be to find a politically acceptable way to raise that revenue without undermining incentives and economic growth.
The tougher problem will be how to raise revenue.
Although the effect is to raise revenue, that is just an accounting convention.
So the key to raising revenue is to reduce tax expenditures, use some of the resulting revenue to reduce tax rates, and devote the rest to reducing future deficits.
But even if the intellectual objection to extra revenue can be overcome in this way, the practical political problem is that every large tax expenditure – the home mortgage interest deduction, the exclusion of employer payments for health insurance, etc. – has its fervent defenders.
But the economic and political attractiveness of a cap consists in its ability to raise substantial revenue without eliminating specific tax expenditures.
Meanwhile a slump in the real-estate market deprived local governments of their main revenue source: land sales.
Failure to implement the spending cuts and revenue increases needed to reduce the budget deficit would undermine confidence in the economy’s prospects and increase speculation that the government would eventually resort to some form of debt repudiation.
In 2015, an audit of the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation revealed that about $20 billion in revenue was never remitted to the authorities under the previous administration.
Of course, this will add complexity and logistical challenges to the business, but it’s also likely to add revenue to the bottom line.
"Operation Clean Hands"--what some are calling the investigations into Khodorkovsky and his associates--will not increase tax revenue, but only spur growth in the informal economy, as businessmen try to conceal their affairs even more completely from the government.
Such episodes are bad for everybody – workers who lose their jobs, entrepreneurs and equity holders who lose their profits, governments that lose their tax revenue, and bondholders who suffer the consequences of bankruptcy – and we have had nearly two centuries to figure out how to deal with them.
Then foregoing landing fees is tantamount to giving Ryanair state aid - the presumption being that the lost revenue must be coming at the expense of Belgian taxpayers.
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