Does conditionality in IMF-supported programs promote revenue reform?

November 19, 2014

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Ernesto Crivelli, and Sanjeev Gupta. Does conditionality in IMF-supported programs promote revenue reform?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2014) accessed September 19, 2024

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Summary

This paper studies whether revenue conditionality in Fund-supported programs had any impact on the revenue performance of 126 low- and middle-income countries during 1993-2013. The results indicate that such conditionality had a positive impact on tax revenue, with strongest improvement felt on taxes on goods and services, including the VAT. Revenue conditionality matters more for low-income countries, particularly those where revenue ratios are below the group average. Moreover, revenue conditionality appears to be more effective when targeted to a specific tax. These results hold after controlling for potential endogeneity, sample selection bias, and when revenues are adjusted for economic cycle.

Subject: Consumption taxes, National accounts, Personal income, Revenue administration, Tax administration core functions, Taxes, Value-added tax

Keywords: Conditionality dummy, Consumption taxes, Global, IMF conditionality, IMF-supported program, Personal income, Revenue collection, Revenue conditionality, Structural conditionality, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tax administration core functions, Tax revenue, Tax revenue performance, Value-added tax, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

32
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Working Paper No. 2014/206
Stock No:

WPIEA2014206
ISBN:

9781484380048
ISSN:

1018-5941

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