The tougher problem will be how to raise revenue.

Even in the face of smuggling, higher taxes reduce consumption and raise revenue.

Fundamental tax reform must strengthen incentives, reduce distorting tax expenditures, and raise revenue.

Although the effect is to raise revenue, that is just an accounting convention.

Another idea is to try to raise more revenue from carbon permits or taxes.

Tax hikes lower consumption and raise revenue in the medium term a 10 higher tax means about 7 higher revenue over the medium term.

Conventional taxes raise revenue, but pose a much greater risk of depressing growth in the process.

Energy and carbon taxes can raise revenue while leaving the economy in a stronger state to sustain a recovery.

The increased demand for Greek goods and services would raise Greece s GDP, increasing tax revenue and reducing transfer payments.

We can also choose how much revenue to raise today, rather than in the future (by varying the fiscal deficit).

In particular, higher tobacco taxes yield a double benefit they reduce smoking, a leading cause of adult death, and raise revenue.

But there are other taxes that can raise significant amounts of revenue with a much less negative impact on the economy.

But the economic and political attractiveness of a cap consists in its ability to raise substantial revenue without eliminating specific tax expenditures.

Reagan suggested that tax cuts would pay for themselves, i.e., actually raise revenue a notion that became known as supply side economics.

There are various things in here I could say we might raise more revenue, or medical innovation will make the spending even higher.

The potential recession risk of a budget deal can be avoided by phasing in the base broadening that is used to raise revenue.

The Berlusconi government recently passed a budget bill designed to raise tax revenue and to bring the economy to a balanced budget by 2013.

The increased government revenue that this generates (plus the decreased spending on the unemployed) pays for the extra borrowing without having to raise taxes.

Surely, such a tax will hit wealthy individuals and financial firms far more than anyone else, and, besides, it will raise a ton of revenue.

The challenge facing US politicians after the election will be to find a politically acceptable way to raise that revenue without undermining incentives and economic growth.

In China, a 10 higher price would reduce consumption by 5 and raise enough excise revenue to pay for a basic health package for 33 million poor rural Chinese.

Policy instruments based on carbon pricing are particularly attractive, because they raise revenue for adaptation to climate change in developing countries while creating incentives for mitigation in developed countries.

For example, an increase in direct taxes, such as income tax, can reduce consumption by twice as much as energy and carbon taxes that raise the same amount of revenue.

This convergence has less to do with regulatory thinking on bank size or function than with a common need to play to the political gallery and raise more tax revenue.

Revenue estimates

Tax revenue

The Department of Revenue Tax Division reports regularly on the state's revenue sources.

(a) As tariff barriers decline, it is important to find other revenue sources in place of falling trade tax revenue since, in several African countries, such revenue remains a significant part of total revenue.

C. Revenue analysis

In developing countries tariff revenue accounts for 10 20 per cent of government revenue.

On the fiscal front, the shift from a complex system of state level indirect taxes to a national goods and services tax (a type of value added tax) will improve efficiency and raise revenue.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the revenue service of the United States federal government.

Local administrations and revenue

Sample sources of revenue

1993 Zambia Revenue Authority

(b) Revenue producing activities

Prime sources of revenue

Contribution to public revenue generation

Proceeds from revenue producing activities

Even if a country ran budget deficit because a cyclical downturn caused a fall in tax revenue and an increase in social transfers, it should be required to raise taxes or cut spending to restore a balanced budget.

This is a table of the total federal tax revenue by state collected by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.

Broken down in percentage terms, the revenue generated from the project portfolio of services is estimated at 60.1 per cent revenue generated from direct service provision is estimated at 36.5 per cent and revenue from rental and interest represents 3.4 per cent of total projected 2004 revenue.

Tax revenue is included for comparison.

(c) Revenue source's protection from adjustment

Revenue from businesses and entry taxes