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Draft Federal Budget for 2011 Takes First Steps Towards Consolidation

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  • Margit Schratzenstaller

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With the trough of the recession following the global financial market crisis having been passed, fiscal policy is faced with the need to return to a sustainable path. The federal government targets a reduction of the general government deficit (in the Maastricht definition) below the ceiling of 3 percent of GDP as from 2012; subsequently, the deficit is to be lowered stepwise to 2.2 percent of GDP by 2014, with the public debt ratio levelling off at around 72 percent of GDP. Underlying the consolidation path for the period from 2011 to 2014 is a government programme that assigns, from an overall federal perspective, slightly more than half of deficit reduction to expenditure restraint, and somewhat less than half to higher taxes. For the federal budget, the expected savings cumulate to € 8.1 billion, while additional revenues amount to some € 6 billion.

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  • Margit Schratzenstaller, 2011. "Draft Federal Budget for 2011 Takes First Steps Towards Consolidation," Austrian Economic Quarterly, WIFO, vol. 16(1), pages 35-56, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:wfo:wquart:y:2011:i:1:p:35-56
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    1. Margit Schratzenstaller, 2016. "Fiscal Policy Facing Major Challenges with Tax Reform, Need for Growth-Enhancing Investment and Consolidation Targets. Federal Fiscal Framework 2016-2019 and Draft Federal Budget 2016," WIFO Bulletin, WIFO, vol. 21(2), pages 12-29, February.
    2. Karin Fischer & Rauf Gönenç & Robert Price, 2011. "Austria: Public Sector Inefficiencies Have Become Less Affordable," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 897, OECD Publishing.
    3. Margit Schratzenstaller, 2015. "Short- and Medium-Term Prospects of Fiscal Policy. Draft Federal Budget 2014-15 and Federal Medium-Term Expenditure Framework 2015-2018," WIFO Bulletin, WIFO, vol. 20(3), pages 31-46, February.
    4. Margit Schratzenstaller, 2012. "Between Consolidation and Growth: Federal Financial Framework 2013-2016, "Consolidation Package II" and Stability Programme," Austrian Economic Quarterly, WIFO, vol. 17(3), pages 187-206, September.

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