Fiscal gap Fiscal gap The fiscal gap is a measure of a government's total indebtedness proposed by economists Laurence Kotlikoff and Alan Auerbach, who define it as the difference between the present value of all of government's projected financial obligations, including future expenditures, including servicing outstanding official federal debt, and the present value of all projected future tax and other receipts, including income accruing from the government's current ownership of financial assets. According to Kotlikoff and Auerbach, the "fiscal gap" accounting method can be used to calculate the percentage of necessary tax increases or spending reductions needed to close the fiscal gap
Irish Fiscal Advisory Council in the United Kingdom (also formed after the financial crisis), and other equivalent members of the "Network of European Union Independent Fiscal Institutions" (which IFAC joined in September 2015). IFAC is structured as a Council of 5 members (one Chairperson) and a supporting analytical team of circa 6. The formal mandate of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (per IFAC website) is to: IFAC has been well received by Irish financial commentators and its publications are widely covered in the Irish media. The key mandated publications of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council are: The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council has commenced an