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Budget Consolidation Options for the UK

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

Ray Barrell
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The increase in UK public sector net borrowing in the past year, plotted in figure 1, has been in part a result of the decline in economic activity, and also a consequence of the change in housing and financial market transactions. The former is predictable with every 1 per cent decline in output below trend producing a decline in net revenues of of between one third and three fifths of a per cent of GDP depending upon the reason for the decline in output. The loss from the decline in asset-related revenues is harder to judge, but the April 2009 budget suggested that revenue losses might be more than 1 per cent of GDP.

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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 210 , October 2009 , pp. 58 - 60
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Copyright © 2009 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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