Tax Structure and Revenue Instability Under External Shocks: Some General Equilibrium Calculations for Côte D’Ivoire

Christina Dawkins and John Whalley

Review of Development Economics, 1997, vol. 1, issue 1, 23-33

Abstract: This paper presents some general equilibrium calculations for Côte d’Ivoire which explore the significance of tax structure for the relationship between external shocks and revenue instability, an issue until recently little explored in the literature, either for Côte d’Ivoire or other developing countries. Results suggest that a low‐rate broadly based value‐added tax, as advocated by the World Bank in its structural adjustment lending, may be a poor revenue stabilizer compared with existing trade‐based tax regimes in many lower‐income commodity exporting countries. With high trade taxes, the external sector is smaller, and external sector shocks generate less revenue instability under existing arrangements compared with a broadly based yield‐neutral alternative, such as a VAT.

Date: 1997
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