IMF Working Papers

Assessing Monthly Progress towards Annual Fiscal Revenue Targets

By Daniel S Kanda

July 1, 2002

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Daniel S Kanda. Assessing Monthly Progress towards Annual Fiscal Revenue Targets, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2002) accessed November 10, 2024
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Summary

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.

Subject: Budget planning and preparation, Excises, Income and capital gains taxes, Public financial management (PFM), Revenue administration, Taxes, Value-added tax

Keywords: Acceptance region, Budget planning and preparation, Excises, Fiscal, Hypothesis testing, Income and capital gains taxes, Revenue, Revenue estimate, Revenue generation, Sri Lanka, Test statistic, Uniform revenue path, United States, Value-added tax, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    29

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2002/116

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA1162002

  • ISBN:

    9781451853940

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941