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  "title": "Mauritius: Selected Issues",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, June 18, 2025",
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  "summary": "This Selected Issues paper assesses the extent to which Mauritius can recalibrate its fiscal policy to restore fiscal sustainability while protecting the poor and the vulnerable. The paper takes stock of the evolution of poverty and inequality in recent years.",
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      "content": "- Assesses the extent to which Mauritius can recalibrate its fiscal policy to restore fiscal sustainability while protecting the poor and the vulnerable.\n- Takes stock of the evolution of poverty and inequality in recent years.\n- Discusses potential options to reform social transfers and tax exemptions while safeguarding poverty objectives.\n- Notes currently limited fiscal space to support long-term growth and the aim of rebuilding policy buffers through fiscal consolidation while preserving recent gains in social and poverty indicators."
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      "heading": "Key findings",
      "content": "- Analysis based on the 2023 household survey data suggests that there is room to make savings on social expenditure and increase tax revenue.\n- It should be possible to implement savings and revenue measures while continuing to protect the poor and the vulnerable."
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      "heading": "Policy options and recommendations",
      "content": "- Better targeting of social benefits to improve efficiency of social expenditure.\n- Reform the value-added tax (VAT) through streamlining of exemptions.\n- Reform the personal income tax through streamlining of allowances and reducing the tax payment threshold.\n- Implement these measures in a manner that safeguards poverty objectives and protects vulnerable groups.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Mauritius: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 25/137; May 28, 2025\n  - Mauritius: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 25/137; May 28, 2025 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Mauritius: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 25/137; May 28, 2025 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: June 18, 2025",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229014960.002",
    "Assesses the extent to which Mauritius can recalibrate its fiscal policy to restore fiscal sustainability while protecting the poor and the vulnerable.",
    "Takes stock of the evolution of poverty and inequality in recent years.",
    "Discusses potential options to reform social transfers and tax exemptions while safeguarding poverty objectives.",
    "Notes currently limited fiscal space to support long-term growth and the aim of rebuilding policy buffers through fiscal consolidation while preserving recent gains in social and poverty indicators.",
    "Analysis based on the 2023 household survey data suggests that there is room to make savings on social expenditure and increase tax revenue.",
    "It should be possible to implement savings and revenue measures while continuing to protect the poor and the vulnerable.",
    "Better targeting of social benefits to improve efficiency of social expenditure.",
    "Reform the value-added tax (VAT) through streamlining of exemptions.",
    "Reform the personal income tax through streamlining of allowances and reducing the tax payment threshold.",
    "Implement these measures in a manner that safeguards poverty objectives and protects vulnerable groups.",
    "**Mauritius: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 25/137; May 28, 2025**"
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