Options for Revenue-based Fiscal Consolidation

Michael Böheim, Heinz Handler and Margit Schratzenstaller
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Austrian Economic Quarterly, 2010, vol. 15, issue 2, 231-244

Abstract: Measures targeted at the revenue side of the budget can contribute between € 10 and € 28 billion to the consolidation of public finances. This total amount could be reached without harming the economy via an increase of excise taxes, an enhanced taxation of wealth and the abolition of tax exemptions, which have undesired economic effects, as well as the privatisation of selected government shareholdings.

Keywords: budget consolidation; employment effects; growth effects; taxes and levies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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