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Austria Selected Issues

This Selected Issues paper for Austria reports the impact of the government size, in addition to tax and expenditure composition, on real GDP growth. In addition to having a large public sector relative to the European Union (EU) 15 average, the composition of revenues is skewed, on the one hand, to...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2004
Series:IMF Staff Country Reports
Subjects:
Public Finance
Business Taxes And Subsidies
Consumption Taxes
Social Security
Expenditures, Public
Revenue
Expenditure
Personal Income And Other Nonbusiness Taxes And Subsidies
Income And Capital Gains Taxes
Welfare & Benefit Systems
Taxation
Public Finance & Taxation
Taxes
Spendings Tax
Taxation, Subsidies, And Revenue: General
Income Tax
National Government Expenditures And Related Policies: General
Social Security Contributions
Revenue Administration
Austria
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Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This Selected Issues paper for Austria reports the impact of the government size, in addition to tax and expenditure composition, on real GDP growth. In addition to having a large public sector relative to the European Union (EU) 15 average, the composition of revenues is skewed, on the one hand, toward direct taxes. The distribution of expenditure, on the other hand, is broadly in line with the European Union (EU) 15 average. Austria is characterized by a heavy taxation of the factors of production, mainly labor, and to a lesser extent, capital
Physical Description:21 pages
ISBN:9781451802344

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