3 research outputs found
Revenue productivity of the tax system in Namibia: Tax buoyancy estimation approach
Buoyancy refers to how tax revenue responds to a gross domestic product without correcting for
discretionary alterations in the tax system. The paper assessed the buoyancy of Namibia’s overall tax system
in an attempt to measure the response of the tax system in entirety because of fluctuations in the national
income and/or the deliberate act by the government to increase tax rate, reviewed tax code and tax
machinery etc. The study employed the Engle-Granger approach to the error correction model to estimate the
tax buoyancy for the period 2001 to 2014. The empirical findings from the study revealed that overall the
Namibian tax system is income inelastic and not buoyant. This is confirmed by a low and negative value of
0.036 which is less than unit. Thus, the economy is not generating sufficient revenue both through
discretionary tax measure and through the expansion in the economic activities. Therefore, the government
need to introduce measures that will allow for more tax revenue collection to have a stable revenue base. This
also means the government need to keep track of tax mobilization with growth in the gross domestic product
as well as to ascertain taxes that are productive
WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies
Sustainably managed wild fisheries support food and nutritional security, livelihoods, and cultures (1). Harmful fisheries subsidies—government payments that incentivize overcapacity and lead to overfishing—undermine these benefits yet are increasing globally (2). World Trade Organization (WTO) members have a unique opportunity at their ministerial meeting in November to reach an agreement that eliminates harmful subsidies (3). We—a group of scientists spanning 46 countries and 6 continents—urge the WTO to make this commitment..