Revenue
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And yet the microtargeted advertising model used by Google and Facebook has disrupted print journalism’s traditional source of revenue, along with coverage of state and local governments.
For example, sovereign-debt worries must be addressed,
revenue
systems enhanced, social-protection arrangements put in place, and financial regulation overhauled.
More people would be connected, exporting countries could generate more revenue, and imports would become less expensive, more reliable, and cleaner.
Cities will therefore have to find new
revenue
sources.
New legislation will slow the growth of pension benefits substantially, and the Monti government’s increase in taxes on owner-occupied real estate will raise significant
revenue
without the adverse incentive effects that would occur if rates for personal-income, payroll, or value-added taxes were raised.
But there are other taxes that can raise significant amounts of
revenue
with a much less negative impact on the economy.
But recent research shows that they can also play a useful role in raising government
revenue
at little cost in terms of economic growth.
For example, an increase in direct taxes, such as income tax, can reduce consumption by twice as much as energy and carbon taxes that raise the same amount of
revenue.
Energy and carbon taxes can raise
revenue
while leaving the economy in a stronger state to sustain a recovery.
Conventional taxes raise revenue, but pose a much greater risk of depressing growth in the process.
In terms of the effect on GDP and jobs, the cost of increasing
revenue
from this source would be as much as one-third less than that of raising the same amount via income taxes or VAT.
As interest rates rise, governments will need to determine whether higher tax
revenue
or stricter austerity measures will be required to offset the increase in debt-service costs.
Until recently, international organizations and governments had relatively well-defined roles in the global development and sustainability agenda, whereas the private sector’s participation in the process was often viewed through the lens of its contributions to economic growth, job creation, and tax
revenue.
As Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush showed, Republicans can rarely resist the temptation to cut corporate, income, and other taxes, even when they have no way to make up for the lost
revenue
and no desire to cut spending.
A splinter group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, has claimed credit for several recent attacks and kidnappings of foreign workers, and says it will not retreat until Delta states gain control of the
revenue
produced by locally extracted oil.
Various ethnic and religious groups, based in different regions, are battling for oil
revenue
and political clout.
Northern governors could, for example, offer the southern states a larger share of Nigeria's oil
revenue
in exchange for their support for a northern president.
The Bush administration continues to have no plans to sew up the veins it has opened with its medieval economic policy, which holds that bleeding
revenue
from the government cures all economic problems.
In the US, the costs include more than eight million jobs lost since 2007, an increase in government debt relative to GDP of around 40% (mostly due to lost tax revenue), and much more.
With oil exports accounting for nearly 90% of government revenue, the pressure on Saudi finances has been intense; the fiscal balance has swung from a small surplus in 2013 to a deficit of more than 21% of GDP in 2015, according to projections by the International Monetary Fund.
The most important priorities include boosting the efficiency of government spending and developing new sources of
revenue
to replace oil exports.
The government has a number of options for new revenue, including a reform of wasteful energy subsidies and the introduction of levies that are standard in the G-20, such as value-added tax.
Clinton’s proposed risk fee resembles one advanced by President Barack Obama’s administration in 2010 in order to discourage risky activity by the largest banks, while helping to recoup some
revenue
from bailouts.
But sluggish growth means less tax
revenue
and more demands for payments to cushion hardship, placing pressure on government budgets.
After all, he relies on oil for government revenue, and, according to recent leaks, is allegedly accumulating a massive personal fortune overseas.
It is the prospect of a proxy war that makes all the unsettled issues – the division of oil revenue, the demarcation of the border, and the fate of the adjoining Nuba Mountains and the Blue Nile region – so potentially explosive.
Measured as the ratio of the government’s fiscal
revenue
to GDP, China’s overall tax burden, according to the International Monetary Fund’s Government Finance Statistics Manual, is just over 29%.
Another way to measure the overall tax burden is to calculate the ratio of tax
revenue
and social security contributions to GDP.
Wherever corruption is endemic – say, Russia, China, and much of the Middle East – many officials may view tax havens not as a
revenue
problem, but as an attractive part of the job.
Social networks are teeming with claims that if the state retains control over lithium production, the resulting
revenue
will solve Chile’s problems in financing education, health care, and housing.
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