Sweden: Staff Report for the 2000 Article IV Consultation

September 7, 2000

Summary

In Sweden, the authorities have indicated that their medium-term fiscal strategy is based on restraining expenditures through nominal ceilings and maintaining a fiscal surplus target of 2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), measured as an average over the cycle. The mission has praised the authorities’ medium-term fiscal strategy but argued that assuming that a structural surplus of 2 percent is maintained and that policy slippages on expenditures are avoided, the room for tax cuts is about 4 percent of GDP over the 2001–03 period, considerably more than envisaged by the authorities.

Subject: Employment, Expenditure, Income tax systems, Inflation, Labor, Labor markets, Prices, Taxes, Unemployment, Wages

Keywords: consumer price inflation, core inflation rate, core rate, core rate of inflation, CR, Employment, house price inflation, IMF staff projection, Income tax systems, Inflation, inflation outcome, ISCR, Riksbank's inflation target, staff appraisal, wage inflation, Wages

Pages:
25
Volume:
2000
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451835878.002
Issue:
118
Series:
Country Report No. 2000/118
Stock No:
1SWEEA0012000
ISBN:
9781451835878
ISSN:
1934-7685

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Notes

Included with the Staff Report is the text of Public Information Notice No. 00/74 IMF Concludes Article IV Consultation with Sweden.

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