Office of Fiscal Service Archives Trust Fund Boards, is a statutory member of the government wide Chief Financial Officers Council, and serves as liaison to the Federal Reserve System in its capacity as Treasury's fiscal agent) Under the office is the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (formerly the Financial Management Service and the Bureau of the Public Debt). The Office of Fiscal Operations and Policy, led by the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fiscal Operations and Policy, oversees the development and implementation of policies relating to the government's cash management, operations, investment and administration of trust funds, payments, collections, and debt collections. Within the Office
Fiscal capacity cannot improve fiscal capacity by simply raising taxes if it does not have a political, legal and fiscal history that has supported such state-power. In comparison to Besley and Persson's individual level study, Gordon and Li (2009) focus on the role of businesses and the financial sector in developed versus developing countries. They model businesses' participation in the financial sector—where Gordon and Li specifically refer to participation in the financial sector as using banks—as participation in the formal sector; they assume that tax authorities can monitor bank records, so that mass participation in the financial sector lends the state information