Ireland: Fiscal Transparency Assessment

July 16, 2013

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Ireland: Fiscal Transparency Assessment, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2013) accessed September 27, 2024

Summary

This paper discusses Ireland’s Fiscal Transparency Assessment. The Irish government has ambitious plans to improve further the timeliness, quality, and comprehensiveness of its budgets, statistics, and accounts. Ireland has the capacity and information to bring its fiscal transparency practices into line with international best practice standards within a reasonable time frame, and at relatively modest additional cost. The Irish administration already incurs many of the fixed and ongoing costs associated with modern accrual-based accounting, and risk-based fiscal management. Fiscal reporting in Ireland is characterized by a high degree of disclosure but also a high degree of fragmentation.

Subject: Budget planning and preparation, Expenditure, Financial statements, Fiscal risks, Public debt, Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords: Annual budget, Budget documentation, Budget planning and preparation, Budget year, Central bank, Chief financial officer, CR, Debt service, Europe, Expenditure forecast, Financial statements, Fiscal risks, General government financial assets, General government gross revenue, Global, Government expenditure, Government finance statistics manual, Government spending, Government support, Indirect tax, ISCR, Nominal GDP, Public expenditure, State agency, Time horizon

Publication Details

Pages:

96
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2013/209
Stock No:

1IRLEA2013004
ISBN:

9781484303924
ISSN:

1934-7685

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