Assessment of Multiplicative Effects in the Context of Analyzing the Impact of Tax Policy on Macroeconomic Processes
The article explores the advantages and disadvantages of the use of taxes, budget spending to achieve the objectives of fiscal policy at different stages of the economic cycle. Considerable attention is paid to the concept of fiscal consolidation, which became the theoretical foundation for modern fiscal policy of the Western countries, the debatable issue of its possible expansionary effects. The features of the methodology for assessing the size of fiscal multipliers were examined, and also attention was paid to the dependence of the magnitude of fiscal multipliers from different monetary conditions. Importance of the use of tax multiplier in the implementation of fiscal policies, the calculation of its values for the Ukrainian economy for the period 2001-2012 was conducted. Conclusions about the possibilities of using this indicator in the implementation of national tax policies in different macroeconomic conditions were drawn.