01797cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF017740 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781484305874 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Ueda, Junji. The Evolution of Potential VAT Revenues and C-Efficiency in Advanced Economies / Junji Ueda. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017. 1 online resource (38 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students To understand the cyclical movements of value-added tax (VAT) revenues in advanced economies, this paper analyzes changes in the C-efficiency ratio by decomposing it into changes in the compliance and policy gaps between 2000 and 2014. The results from a panel of EU member countries and Japan suggest that the cyclicality of C-efficiency is explained by the correlation of both gaps with the output gap. The cyclicality of the compliance gap appears to be short lived, and larger in countries with high compliance gaps. The cyclicality of the policy gaps largely reflects not changes in policy parameters, but rather, behavior-induced changes, notably in government consumption and, to a lesser degree, in the composition of household consumption. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/158 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2017/158/001.2017.issue-158-en.xml IMF e-Library