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In Search of Lost Revenue: Why Restoring Fiscal Soundness After a Crisis is Harder Than it Looks

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This note argues that because fiscal deficit after a crisis owe much to a drop in tax revenues and a sluggish revenue growth, its adjustment has to rely more on revenue augmentation than commonly thought. Cutting extra spending in the wake of the crisis would not balance the book, while a natural growth of tax revenue after the recovery may take a long time before financing the pre-crisis level of expenditure. Faced with unpopular choices, the government may implicitly prefer seeing higher inflation.

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  • Masato Miyazaki, 2010. "In Search of Lost Revenue: Why Restoring Fiscal Soundness After a Crisis is Harder Than it Looks," IMF Working Papers 2010/137, International Monetary Fund.
    • Handle: RePEc:imf:imfwpa:2010/137
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