IMF Staff Country Reports

Malaysia: Selected Issues

March 18, 2014

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Summary

This Selected Issues paper on Malaysia highlights quantitative assessment of additional measures required during the medium term to achieve fiscal targets. The authorities aim to lower the budget deficit to about 3 percent of GDP by 2015, down from 4.0 percent in 2013, and to balance the budget by 2020. It suggests that ranking fiscal instruments under different fiscal policy goals can help policymakers identify the composition of fiscal adjustment based on their preferences. By combining ranking with the instruments’ potential yield helps in identifying the optimal set of measures required to achieve the needed fiscal adjustment.

Subject: Consumption taxes, Fiscal policy, Income and capital gains taxes, Income tax systems, Revenue administration, Taxes

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Consolidation strategy, Consumption taxes, Corporate bond bond market, CR, Debt, EBITDA ratio, GDP, Global, GST, Income and capital gains taxes, Income tax systems, ISCR, Malaysia, Market, Personal income, Tax rate

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    27

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2014/082

  • Stock No:

    1MYSEA2014002

  • ISBN:

    9781475529852

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685

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