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Globally, the second largest such company is Vale, based in Brazil, and the Chinese are now the single largest presence in Africa, although China already has some revenue transparency legislation on its books, given the disclosure requirements of the Hong Kong financial market.
Placing an emphasis on automated, computer-based systems for procurement and revenue collection will go a long way to limit corruption.
For example, although in Peru corruption was pervasive elsewhere, government reforms that lowered tax rates managed to increase tax revenue from 8.4% of GDP in 1991 to 12.3% in 1998, and increase the number of taxpayers from 895,000 in 1993 to 1,766,000 in 1999.
Of course, not all programs are successful, but some effective cases of procurement and revenue reform have benefits 100 times higher than the costs.
The condition for success in the American case was that the US raised its own revenue, with federally administered customs houses initially providing the bulk of its receipts.
The logic of a need for specific revenue applies also in modern Europe, where a reformed fiscal system might include common administration of value-added tax (with the additional benefit of eliminating a considerable amount of cross-border fraud).
This is significant, but not nearly as large as the previous proposal to cut the rate to 25% – which, according to independent analysts, would have led to about $10 trillion in revenue losses over the course of just one decade.
Reagan, Bush, and others declared that their tax cuts would spur so much economic activity that total tax revenue would actually increase.
After the other justifications for big tax cuts were proved wrong, Reagan and Bush fell back on the theory that the decline in tax revenue was actually a good thing, because it would force Congress to approve spending cuts.
Regardless, each investor must work with existing institutions – if only to access revenue streams initially and benefit from the lowered costs later on.
And, on the revenue side, Europe needs a minimum of fiscal homogeneity, at least in terms of corporate taxation, in order to avoid a race to the bottom.
Although more than 75,000 patents have been issued to American universities since 1969, the vast majority of technology transfer offices – administrative units that manage a school’s intellectual-property output – are failing to generate enough revenue even to cover their operating costs.
One idea is debt-based funds offering bonds with more predictable returns based on revenue from new products.
In addition, the fall in incomes would have automatically reduced tax revenue and increased various transfer payments.
So the only countercyclical policy available to France is fiscal: lower tax revenue and higher spending.
That would reduce tax revenue and increase transfer payments, easily pushing the fiscal deficit over 0.5% of GDP.
That would reduce demand even more, causing a further fall in revenue and a further increase in transfers – and thus a bigger fiscal deficit and calls for further fiscal tightening.
Government spending is now increasing by 4% annually because of a new "action rule," enacted in 2001, that allows revenue from the Petroleum Fund to be phased into the domestic economy.
But the additional budget revenue has merely offset lower taxes, while high wages and interest rates are jacking up public expenses.
Starting out with a fixed carbon price (or one within a defined range) assures incentives for business, while making it easy to anticipate resulting government revenue and effects on the cost of living.
In fact, one can find similar achievements in Chile and Brazil, which have not given up on democratic checks and balances, political pluralism, or freedom of the press, and have not enjoyed the luxury of $300 billion in oil revenue in the space of one decade.
The idea that a country can achieve a trade surplus by importing nothing is as fanciful as the idea that a government can repay its debt by starving itself of revenue.
In the United States, for example, an annual handout of $10,000 to every adult – less than the official poverty threshold for a single person – would exhaust almost all federal tax revenue, under the current system.
Under Hollande, France’s Socialists favor achieving that renewal through a process of social dialogue that convinces rather than imposes, that focuses both on revenue measures and on boosting government efficiency, and that may adopt some of northern Europe’s more successful “flexicurity” policies, which combine greater labor-market flexibility with strong social protection.
The last measure taken was the dismantling of the real-estate tax, a major source of revenue for local governments.
The two interventions thus require different methods for calculating the revenue that governments receive from seigniorage.
This additional net worth is transferred to the government every year as seigniorage revenue, which is accounted for as it is received, over a number of years.
If, however, a permanent increase in the monetary base is transferred to the government as seigniorage revenue, it can use the windfall to fund tax cuts or increase spending without affecting its balance sheets.
The growth pact can be properly financed by new sources of revenue, such as a financial-transaction tax and joint project bonds for infrastructure investment, or by curbing tax evasion and tax fraud and eliminating tax havens, as well as by more efficient and intelligent use of structural funds.
In Germany the issue is the distribution of tax revenue.
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