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标题：The Impact of Value Added Tax on the North Cyprus Economy : a Short Term Assessment
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作者：Abdul GHAFOOR
期刊名称：Dogus University Journal
印刷版ISSN：1302-6739
电子版ISSN：1308-6979
出版年度：2005
卷号：6
期号：1
页码：98-111
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出版社：Dogus University
摘要：Value added tax was introduced in North Cyprus in 1996 to increase public revenue as well as to harmonize with Turkey and EU member countries. It is however evident that the budget deficit has rather increased after the introduction of VAT. The literature argues that VAT not only has potential to generate enough revenue to reduce the budget deficit but also encourages savings and investments. The question is why could North Cyprus not achieve these objectives? The present study was designed to answer this question. It evaluates the impact of VAT on the North Cyprus economy by using several macroeconomic variables such as total consumption, total domestic savings, public, private and total investments, government purchases, exports and imports. The impact of VAT has been studied through simple regression techniques with dummy variable for policy change.