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Tax Smoothing in a Financially Repressed Economy Evidence from India

India has a long history of running fiscal deficits. Two broad considerations motivate a government to run a deficit: tax smoothing and tax tilting. This paper tests a version of Barro’s tax-smoothing model, using Indian data for the period 1951-52 to 1996-97. The empirical results indicate that the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cashin, Paul
Other Authors: Olekalns, Nilss, Sahay, Ratna
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 1998
Series:IMF Working Papers
Subjects:
Institutional Investors
Stocks
Pension Funds
Optimal Taxation
Budget Systems
Public Finance & Taxation
Government Debt Management
Financial Institutions
Financial Instruments
Debt Management
National Deficit Surplus
Debts, Public
Fiscal Policy
Debt
Budget Planning And Preparation
Budgeting
National Government Expenditures And Related Policies: General
Expenditure
Sovereign Debt
Non-bank Financial Institutions
Investments: Stocks
Efficiency
Budget
Expenditures, Public
Macroeconomics
Public Financial Management (pfm)
Budgeting & Financial Management
National Budget
Investment & Securities
Public Finance
India
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Summary:India has a long history of running fiscal deficits. Two broad considerations motivate a government to run a deficit: tax smoothing and tax tilting. This paper tests a version of Barro’s tax-smoothing model, using Indian data for the period 1951-52 to 1996-97. The empirical results indicate that the central government of India has tax-smoothed, while the regional governments of India have not. The paper also finds evidence of tax tilting, reflected in financial repression, which has led to the accumulation of excessive public liabilities
Physical Description:43 pages
ISBN:9781451854466

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