Revenue Forgone (in USD)

QoG code: gted_rfusd

Total revenue forgone by country per year, converted from the local currency to US Dollars. Revenue forgone shows the amount of revenue a country forgoes or loses by granting tax deductions, exemptions, etc.

The data has been aggregated for QoG Data to the year level. The amount of revenue forgone in USD is the sum of all types of tax expenditures in a given year, by country. In the original dataset, the data is presented by provision ID, which means that for each type of tax expenditure there is a separate revenue forgone value.

Type of variable
Continuous
Downloaded by QoG on
2025-12-28
Last updated by source
2025-10-10

Categories

Public Economy
Details of this variable in our compilation datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard cross-section 109
Standard time-series 114
OECD cross-section 30
OECD time-series 32
Dataset Available for years
Standard time-series 1990-2024
OECD time-series 1990-2024

Country coverage

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  • Albania
  • Algeria
  • Argentina
  • Armenia
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bangladesh
  • Belgium
  • Benin
  • Bhutan
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Bulgaria
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burundi
  • Cameroon
  • Canada
  • Cape Verde
  • Chad
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Congo, Democratic Republic
  • Costa Rica
  • Cote d'Ivoire
  • Croatia
  • Cyprus (1975-)
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Dominican Republic
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • El Salvador
  • Estonia
  • Eswatini (former Swaziland)
  • Ethiopia (1993-)
  • Finland
  • France (1963-)
  • Gabon
  • Georgia
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Greece
  • Guatemala
  • Guinea
  • Honduras
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Jordan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Korea, South
  • Latvia
  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Madagascar
  • Maldives
  • Mali
  • Mauritania
  • Mauritius
  • Mexico
  • Moldova
  • Mongolia
  • Morocco
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Nicaragua
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • North Macedonia
  • Norway
  • Pakistan (1971-)
  • Panama
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • Rwanda
  • Senegal
  • Sierra Leone
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
  • Spain
  • Sri Lanka
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Taiwan
  • Tajikistan
  • Tanzania
  • Togo
  • Tonga
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Uganda
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Uruguay
  • Zambia

Year coverage

This variable has information from 1990 to 2024.