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A modest yield of 3% on a portfolio worth $55 billion would amount to an income exceeding its current total revenues, and many times more than Boston’s current capital plan.
Earmarking of taxes caused current expenditures (especially on social-security benefits) to increase along with revenues, reducing the scope for a higher public-sector contribution to domestic savings.
Over most of the last 40 years, China focused on rapid land-based development, driven by local initiatives aimed at attracting infrastructure investment, human resources, and tax revenues.
To advance this effort, China’s leaders are engaging the private sector, which, as Vice Premier Liu He recently acknowledged, accounts for more than 50% of tax revenues, 60% of GDP, 70% of technological innovation, 80% of urban employment, and 90% of new jobs and companies.
Spending on political advertising is skyrocketing, boosting profits at broadcast and cable news networks, which have been struggling with declining viewership and lackluster revenues.
Using oil or natural gas for domestic electricity threatens oil and gas exports, which are the principle source of government revenues.
Indeed, with domestic oil consumption growing at a higher rate than production, government revenues from oil exports are already in decline.
Thus, nuclear power will halt the decline in government revenues by freeing more oil and natural gas for export.
Its supporters in Iraq might cripple Iraqi oil exports from Basra, which would damage US plans in Iraq while boosting Iran’s oil revenues, or limit the availability of fuel to the US Army by attacking roads and bridges, especially the Kuwait City-Baghdad highway.
Since each issuer represented a small fraction of their revenues, rating agencies were unwilling to compromise their reputation for the sake of any single issuer.
The CDO market, however, was concentrated: six or seven issuers controlled most of the market, and this market ended up representing 50% of the entire revenues to be gained through ratings.
Thus, a deficit is acceptable when it results from abnormally low tax revenues, but not when revenues are at their normal level.
Moreover, tourism has surged, and both company and government revenues have been rising rapidly.
If invested in infrastructure, education, and external financial assets, natural-resource revenues can accelerate growth.
But, too often, such revenues distort economic incentives, which come to favor rent-seeking and interfere with the diversification that is essential for growth.
To combat the impact of such dependence, they spend oil revenues on other sectors, leaving the oil sector with little investment.
With revenues plummeting and credit cut off, the Argentine provinces had to resort to printing scrip to pay salaries and pensions.
But that view overestimates the state’s capacity to collect revenues in the midst of a panic.
In the short term, however, Brazil can expect the ongoing investigation to continue to undermine GDP growth, and thus diminish tax revenues, further impeding efforts at fiscal consolidation.
The budget surplus and export revenues allow the economy to service its foreign debt, while bank recapitalization permits renewed credit expansion.
Governments should levy gradually rising carbon taxes, using the revenues to finance low-carbon energy systems.
The added revenues should be allocated to new public investment spending.
If rich countries introduce domestic carbon taxes or auction emissions permits based on this price level, they could potentially provide $30 billion a year for developing countries by using just 10% of the revenues.
A carbon tax on international shipping and aviation set at the same level (or auction revenues from emissions caps, if that pricing route is followed) could generate $10 billion annually for international climate action from just 25-50% of the revenues, even after ensuring that costs borne by developing countries are covered.
The outcome of premature fiscal consolidation is all but foretold: growth will slow, tax revenues will diminish, and the reduction in deficits will be disappointing.
Africa must rapidly develop its own resources, beginning by nearly doubling tax revenues.
Across Sub-Saharan Africa, tax revenues account for less than one-fifth of GDP, compared to more than one-third in OECD countries.
From 1990 to 2004, for example, Ghana reformed its tax system and raised revenues from 11% to 22% of GDP.
Admittedly, such progress is difficult; in Nigeria, we saw an opportunity in raising non-oil tax revenues, but struggled to seize it.
Amid increasingly intense international competition to attract foreign investment, reducing the corporate tax would actually increase Japan’s tax revenues, by spurring companies to invest their vast cash stockpiles in more productive activities.
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