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, 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.

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Year of publication:	2004-08-05
Institutions:	International Monetary Fund (IMF) ; International Monetary Fund
Subject:	Article IV consultations \| Selected issues \| expenditures \| expenditure \| fiscal policy \| taxation \| fiscal variables \| budget composition \| government expenditures \| budget surplus \| composition of expenditures \| public expenditures \| tax burden \| total expenditures \| expenditure categories \| government budget \| tax revenues \| general government expenditures \| tax policy \| expenditure composition \| government expenditure \| fiscal balance \| expenditure components \| public expenditure \| fiscal policy variables \| tax rates \| government spending \| categories of expenditures \| taxes on growth \| distribution of expenditure \| government revenue \| level of expenditures \| defense spending \| tax structure \| shares of expenditures \| budget deficits \| fiscal surplus \| fiscal consolidation \| tax ratio \| tax reform \| spending cuts \| tax revenue

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	IMF Staff Country Reports.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series IMF Staff Country Reports Number 04/237 2 pages long
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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