Countries have responded decisively to the COVID-19 crisis, but face significant fiscal challenges ahead
Governments have taken unprecedented fiscal action in response to the COVID-19 crisis, but countries will need to support economic recovery in the face of significantly increasing fiscal challenges, according a new OECD report Tax Policy Reforms 2020: OECD and Selected Partner Economies. This was announced by the OECD in a press release dated 3 September 2020 on the release of the report. Tax Policy Reforms 2020 describes the latest tax ...
Latin America and the Caribbean: Public revenues rebound in 2017 after dip in 2016
The average tax-to-GDP ratio in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) rose to 22.8% in 2017, a gain of 0.2 percentage points from 2016, according to Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean 2019. The report, launched on 25 March 2019 at the XXXI Regional Fiscal Seminar in Santiago, Chile, finds that the rebound was primarily driven by Caribbean countries and in particular Guyana and Barbados, on the back ...