State-Local Revenue Diversification, Balance, and Fiscal Performance

Jack P. Suyderhoud
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Jack P. Suyderhoud: University of Hawaii

Public Finance Review, 1994, vol. 22, issue 2, 168-194

Abstract: Revenue diversification and balanced use of revenue sources have long been held as desirable policy aims by many tax policy analysts, especially the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. Ladd and Weist asserted that revenue balance is not a valid policy goal in and of itself. The disagreements between the two schools of thought have been difficult to sort out in part because of differences in perspectives and in part because of the lack of an acceptable quantitative measure of diversification and definition of balance. This article uses an empirical method for determining diversification and shows that past definitions of revenue balance have been overly narrow. However, in contrast to Ladd and Weist, the empirical measures of diversification do show that revenue balance is related, at the margin, to improved fiscal performance, and thus that balance remains a worthwhile policy aim .

Date: 1994
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DOI: 10.1177/109114219402200202

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