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But now, with oil prices down sharply, Russia’s export revenue has plummeted by 30% this year, and state funds have become very scarce.
But if leaders end up pursuing an extreme form of short-termism – by, say, passing big tax cuts with no accompanying revenue increase, weakening public institutions, or imposing tariffs or engaging in other forms of protectionism, without accounting for retaliation by other countries – the gains will not last long.
China and Russia could provide economic assistance and investment to Afghanistan, creating more projects that provide Afghanistan with badly needed jobs and revenue.
In the United States, Republicans propose to balance the budget within ten years by reforming entitlement spending and taxes (with fewer exemptions, deductions, and credits providing the revenue needed to reduce personal tax rates and a corporate rate that, at 35%, is the highest in the OECD).
In the second quarter of 2016, Alibaba announced that its revenue from China’s retail market had increased by 49% year on year; another online platform, Tencent, reported a 52% increase.
Slower growth means less revenue, and a faster downward spiral.
On the revenue side, the degree to which federal taxation absorbs shocks at the state level cannot be very large for the simple reason that the main source of federal revenues that does react to the business cycle, the federal income tax, accounts for less than 10% of GDP.
Costa Rica arguably started a trend in the early 1990’s, when it began levying taxes on fossil fuels and using the revenue to protect forests.
First, on the revenue side, capital income would be taxed at a flat 30% rate, whereas before capital was taxed more than labor.
Reagan suggested that tax cuts would pay for themselves, i.e., actually raise revenue – a notion that became known as “supply side” economics.
When you cut taxes, you get lower revenue, which means a bigger budget deficit.
In other words, when high-tech companies pay their workers with stock options, as many are increasingly doing, the gap in taxable revenue is significant – 17% in the UK, and 19% in the US, to be precise.
With an ever-greater proportion of national wealth being channeled into stock appreciation, the lost revenue will need to be found in other places.
As I have argued on my blog, we must rethink how tax revenue is raised.
If all income were taxed at the same rate, intangible investments made by companies would still generate revenue in the form of taxes paid by the companies’ wealthy owners.
The alternative – to maintain the status quo – will only ensure that as growth in the intangible economy intensifies, current revenue gaps will eventually become gaping holes.
But success will demand that local governments urgently improve their own capacity in key areas, such as expenditure control, revenue expansion, responsible fund-raising, and creditworthiness.
Between 60% and 70% of the revenue would be raised in London, yet the EU would spend most of the money to shore up eurozone finances.
He has also shown that many of the nineteenth century’s successful high-tariff countries, such as Canada and Argentina, used tariffs as a revenue source, not as a means of sheltering domestic manufacturers.
The group’s demands include dividing the country into six or eight new regions along broad ethnic lines with powers to generate and spend revenue.
But it is PRONACO’s demand that at least 50% of the oil revenue derived from the Niger delta and other states in the south be retained in the area of production that most threatens the survival of the country’s survival as a united entity.
But Russia needs the revenue at least as much as Europe needs the energy.
In Spain, housing and employment collapses have hammered revenue.
In some cases, funding can be found without raising taxes: governments can create revenue streams by instituting user charges, capturing increases in property value, or selling existing assets and recycling the proceeds.
The state-owned oil company, which accounts for a major chunk of government revenue, is hugely inefficient, and invests far too little in new equipment and technology.
(Russia also stood to gain significant revenue from the project.)
Facebook and Google effectively control over half of all digital advertising revenue.
This led to a precipitous drop in net oil-export revenue, from $95 billion in 2011 to $69 billion in 2012 – a catastrophic decline for a country in which oil sales comprise 80% of export earnings and 50% of government revenue.
As countries approach this level of development, new investments will be needed to pay for health and education upgrades, and mobilizing domestic tax revenue will become a critical component of budgeting strategies.
And there will be more space as carbon taxes raise substantial revenue for governments (and improve the tax structure).
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