current-year non-tax revenues

overstating of current year's income

Sales, Billing and Receipts (Non-tax Revenue)

[15] The costs of collection ratio is computed by comparing the annual costs of administration incurred by a revenue body, with the total revenue collected over the course of the fiscal year, and is often expressed as a percentage or as the cost of collecting 100 units of revenue.

Buoyant tax revenues, thanks also to the ongoing efforts to make the tax administration more efficient, helped in meeting this target, with current primary expenditure also seeing rapid growth.

Although the government has been broadly successful in securing the planned restraint of expenditure (i.e. growth in current primary expenditure continued to decelerate from 8.9 per cent in 2001 to 7.8 per cent in 2002 and 4.1 per cent in 2003), the shortfall in tax revenue induced by the recession led the government to rely, to a significant degree, on one-off measures for a second consecutive year (1.5 and 2.1 per cent of GDP in 2002 and 2003 respectively).

5. Asks the Commission to give good governance in tax matters, and fair, well-balanced, efficient and transparent tax collection, a high place on the agenda in its policy dialogue (political, development and trade), and in all development cooperation agreements, with partner countries, enhancing ownership and domestic accountability by fostering an environment in which national parliaments are able to contribute meaningfully to the formulation and oversight of national budgets, including on domestic revenues and tax matters, and supporting the role of civil society in ensuring public scrutiny of tax governance and the moni ...[+++]toring of cases of tax fraud, inter alia by setting up effective systems for protecting whistleblowers and journalistic sources;