Sweden: Staff Report for the 2000 Article IV Consultation

Publication Date:

September 7, 2000

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

In Sweden, the authorities have indicated that their medium-term fiscal strategy is based on restraining expenditures through nominal ceilings and maintaining a fiscal surplus target of 2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), measured as an average over the cycle. The mission has praised the authorities’ medium-term fiscal strategy but argued that assuming that a structural surplus of 2 percent is maintained and that policy slippages on expenditures are avoided, the room for tax cuts is about 4 percent of GDP over the 2001–03 period, considerably more than envisaged by the authorities.

Series:

Country Report No. 2000/118

Subject:

Notes:

Included with the Staff Report is the text of Public Information Notice No. 00/74 IMF Concludes Article IV Consultation with Sweden.

English

Publication Date:

September 7, 2000

ISBN/ISSN:

9781451835878/1934-7685

Stock No:

1SWEEA0012000

Pages:

25

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