Sweden: Selected Issues

August 9, 2004

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Sweden: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2004) accessed November 12, 2024

Summary

The Selected Issues paper analyzes tax policy trends at the local level in Sweden and assesses the effectiveness of the vertical fiscal policy coordination system. The study reviews Sweden’s local public finances from an international perspective and empirically explores various explanations for the gradual increase in local tax rates. It discusses long-term challenges for local public finances and aggregate fiscal policy coordination. The design of vertical fiscal policy coordination in other countries is described. The paper also examines the Swedish experience of work absence in a European context.

Subject: Aging, Expenditure, Fiscal policy, Insurance, Labor, Population and demographics, Revenue administration

Keywords: Absence rate, Aging, Cash benefit, CR, Europe, Global, Income tax, Insurance system, ISCR, Länder government, Replacement rate, Sickness absence, Tax burden, Western Europe

Publication Details

Pages:

52
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2004/245
Stock No:

1SWEEA0022004
ISBN:

9781451835960
ISSN:

1934-7685

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