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Cover Technical Assistance Reports
Suriname: Technical Assistance Report-Assessing the Launch and Administration of VAT in Suriname
International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept.
At the request of the Directorate of Taxes and Customs, a technical assistance mission evaluated how the authorities launched the Value Added Tax (VAT), administered the tax in the first 12-months of operation, and provided advice on improving the efficiency of the administration of VAT. Suriname implemented a VAT on January 1, 2023, replacing the Sales Tax. VAT revenue collected for the first 12 months was approximately 3 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and was 95.4 percent of the collection target. The weaker than expected VAT performance can be attributed to how the VAT implementation was managed. The authorities were not sufficiently prepared to effectively implement and administer the VAT. Several risks have been identified, and if not urgently addressed, there may be weaker VAT revenue collection, continued weak filing and payment compliance, which pose a challenge to the authorities’ fiscal program.
Keywords:
Total Input Tax; Total Output Tax; Total Supplies; Taxpayer Identification Number; Taxpayer Registration; Value Added Tax; VAT Implementation; Suriname.; VAT declaration; VAT revenue collection; departments Administering VAT; VAT Payable; revenue performance; input VAT; VAT information; Value-added tax; Tax refunds; Tax administration core functions; Sales tax; Auditing; Global; Caribbean
Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Suriname: Technical Assistance Report-National Accounts Statistics Mission
International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept.
This Technical Assistance Report discusses measures required to improve the national accounts of Suriname, including consistency with the System of National Accounts 2008. The General Bureau of Statistics (GBS) is expected to implement the recommendations of the IMF mission progressively over a five-year period. Given the staff time wasted on data entry and potential transcription errors, the GBS should give high priority to requesting the Ministry of Finance to provide the Government accounts data in Excel format for 2015 onward. With the support of the Finance Minister, the GBS also needs to implement a formal agreement with the Tax Department to share tax registration data, company income tax returns and sales tax returns.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; estimate; GDP; center; price index; KPV estimate; GDP-p estimate; GDP estimate; SUT estimate; CPV estimate; GDP-e estimate; current price; BM estimate; GDP-P estimate; Consumer price indexes; Data collection; Price indexes; Caribbean
Cover IMF Working Papers
Regional Financial Integration in the Caribbean: Evidence From Financial and Macroeconomic Data
Goohoon Kwon
and
Mr. Raphael A Espinoza
This paper assesses the extent of regional financial integration in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) by analyzing equity prices in the region and rigidity of external financing constraints. The results are presented in a cross-regional perspective. The Caribbean stock markets are not as well integrated as one would expect from the extent of cross-listing and importance of regional banking groups: price differentials of cross-listed stocks reach an average of 5 percent. Auto-Regressive models suggest that these price differentials are only slowly arbitraged away, with half-lives exceeding 7 worked days, even when looking only at large arbitrage opportunities (using a Threshold Auto-Regressive model). A speculative methodology using macroeconomic data seems to confirm these findings. A strong mean reversion of the current account (respectively regional trade imbalances) is interpreted, following Obstfeld and Taylor (2004), as a lack of ways to finance current account deficits, i.e. a lack of global (respectively regional) financial integration. The region appears to be much less integrated than the EU15 or the ASEAN+3 groups, although it fares well compared to other LDCs.
Keywords:
WP; market capitalization; trade balance; exchange rate; CARICOM; cross-market premium; cross-listed stock; Threshold Auto-Regressive model; current account dynamics; CARICOM group; CARICOM community; CARICOM firm; price convergence; balance of payments; liquid asset; Financial integration; Stock markets; Stocks; Current account; Regional integration; Caribbean; Global
Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Suriname: Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund
In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.
Keywords:
IMF staff estimate; Surinam rice operation; burger Luchtvaart Autoriteit Suriname; Tennis bond; Sur. zwembond; unit value; Suriname authorities; Public sector; Agroindustries; Exports; Stocks; Western Hemisphere
Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Suriname: Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund
In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; Suriname; joint stock; IMF staff estimate; Surinam rice operation; Suriname authorities; burger Luchtvaart Autoriteit Suriname; Public sector; Agroindustries; Transportation; Exports; Western Hemisphere
Cover Developments and Challenges in the Caribbean Region
Developments and Challenges in the Caribbean Region
Mr. Simon Cueva
,
Mr. Stephen Tokarick
,
Mr. Erik J. Lundback
,
Ms. Janet Gale Stotsky
, and
Mr. Samuel P. Itam

Abstract

This paper focuses on the independent states that are full members of the Caribbean Community. It provides background information on recent developments in the Caribbean region and lays out the principal policy issues that countries will need to address in the period ahead. The Caribbean countries face several common problems and must deal with similar economic policy issues. Consequently, concentrating on the regional perspective permits a comparison of the individual responses to similar problems. The regional view throws light on the countries' movement toward convergence. The economic prospects for the region are generally satisfactory over the medium term, but the projections depend importantly on the resolve of governments to pursue appropriate policies, as well as favorable developments in the rest of the world. The relatively favorable outlook for the region is not without risks, such as a slowdown in growth in the major trading partner countries or a term of trade shock.

Keywords:
OP; country; deficit; inflation differential; public sector deficit; Caribbean country; public sector wage bill; inflation in the OECS country; world commodity; Exports; Imports; Public sector; Trade facilitation; Inflation; Caribbean; North America
Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Suriname: Recent Economic Developments
International Monetary Fund
This paper reviews economic developments in Suriname during 1994–96. In 1995, there was a major turnaround in Suriname’s economic and financial situation following the expansionary fiscal and monetary policies pursued in the first half of the 1990s and the political and economic disruptions of the 1980s. The marked improvement was owing to the restoration of financial discipline, a strengthening of international bauxite prices, and the unification and subsequent stabilization of the exchange rate. The inflation fell further to less than 1 percent in 1996.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; government; Suriname; wage award; government study; rate; government of Suriname; government ministry; wage agreement; rate of inflation; Pensions; Commercial banks; Civil service; Pension spending; Tariffs; Caribbean
Cover IMF Staff Papers
IMF Staff papers: Volume 18 No. 3
International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
This paper discusses the implications for credit policy of changes in the income velocity of money; it neglects other policy elements of financial programs unless they have a direct bearing on velocity changes. Control over credit expansion by domestic banks is used to influence expenditure decisions, since the availability of credit has a strong impact on expenditures on domestic and foreign goods and services and, possibly, on net capital flows and, therefore, on the balance of payments. The paper also describes some relationships between monetary and national income accounts in order to identify the changes in velocity that must be considered in determining credit policies. The relevance of incorporating lags into the demand for money function has been mentioned earlier. Lags in the formation of expectations within a country usually can be expected to change only slowly over time and, therefore, can be assumed constant in the estimation of the demand for money function.
Keywords:
SP; interest rate; tax ratio; exchange rate expectation; EEC currency; EEC country; mining share; Personal income; Exchange rates; Demand for money; Unemployment; Currencies; South America; Central America; Middle East; North Africa; Africa; Caribbean; Europe