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Economy and Finance

What is Fiscal Drag?

10 Sep 2023 Zinkpot 157
What is Fiscal Drag?
  1. Fiscal drag is an economic term that describes how income growth and inflation compels taxpayers into higher tax brackets.
  2. The term fiscal drag describes the situation in which rising inflation reduces a currency’s purchasing power, while income increases simultaneously.
  3. As a result, tax collection increases the government income without any rises in tax rates but earners’ spending decreases when taxes as a percentage of income go up.
  4. Fiscal drag results from economic sluggishness and the government’s failure to implement fiscal policy during growing inflation and wage rise.
  5. As people climb to high tax brackets, their tax bills rise. Not only the total amount but also a proportion of their total income. This subsequently dampens or reduces spending, or aggregate demand for goods and services which is known as a fiscal drag.
  6. A fiscal drag is not necessarily a bad thing if it stops demand from causing the economy to overheat. It’s a good thing i.e. it’s an economic stabiliser. 
  7. It is basically a process by which, during inflation, rising income draws people into higher tax brackets so that their real incomes may fall. This acts as a restraint on the expansion of the economy.

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