Assessing Monthly Progress towards Annual Fiscal Revenue Targets

Daniel Kanda

No 2002/116, IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: A simple statistical methodology is developed to help evaluate monthly progress toward an annual fiscal revenue target, and the applicability of the methodology to both developing and industrial countries is demonstrated using data for Sri Lanka and the United States.

Keywords: WP; Sri Lanka; United States; fiscal; revenue; hypothesis testing; test statistic; uniform revenue path; revenue generation; acceptance region; revenue estimate; Budget planning and preparation; Income and capital gains taxes; Excises; Value-added tax (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29
Date: 2002-07-01
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