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Tax take hit as interest costs on bonds snowball


By John Glover

Thursday January 20 2011


The rate at which interest payments on government bonds are eating up the tax European citizens pay is accelerating as investors wary of the deficit crisis drive up sovereign borrowing costs.

Greece, the first country to seek a bailout, uses a third of tax revenue to service the national debt.

"Too high interest costs tend to snowball and total debt then rises because of the payments," said David Watts, a strategist at debt-research firm CreditSights.

"In that sense, the bailout funds for Greece and Ireland are making their debt less rather than more sustainable."
Ireland pushed to reduce the average 5.8pc interest rate it is being charged by the EU for its bailout at a meeting of finance ministers in Brussels this week. The above-market rate was put in place under pressure from Germany to ensure aid was a last-ditch option for needy nations.

Ireland, which has to hand over almost 18pc of its tax revenue to bondholders, was forced to turn to the EU and IMF after the near-collapse of the banking system.

Concern is growing that Portugal, which pays 14pc of its tax take on interest, will need help.

Italy, which thanks to years of austerity and a high household savings rate, has so far avoided attracting the attention of bondholders, pays out more than 17pc of tax as interest.

The average for interest payments as a percentage of tax revenue of the 16 nations using the euro is 12.5pc, according to Eurostat. Average yields on government bonds in the region have risen 25pc in the past three months, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch index data. (Bloomberg)


- John Glover


(independent.ie)
 
per tirarvi su di morale...

... c'e' il precedente storico (anche abbastanza recente) di un paese che e' arrivato a pagare interessi superiori al 100% delle entrate fiscali e ciononostante e' riuscito a rientrare dal debito senza fare default ... provate a indovinare quale :rolleyes:
 
Greece, the first country to seek a bailout, uses a third of tax revenue to service the national debt.
La frase e' comunque formulata in maniera fuorviante.
Letta cosi' , pare che i Greci si stiano tassando a morte per ripagarvi.
In realta' la totalita' delle entrate fiscali greche non e' neppure sufficiente a coprire la spesa pubblica , non essendoci ancora un avanzo primario ed essendo necessario emettere nuovo debito sia per coprire le spese che per rinnovare gli interessi sul debito stesso.
Sarebbe piu' corretto dire che il debito greco cresce per i soli interessi di un importo pari ad un terzo delle sue entrate fiscali annue
 
Un ampio squilibrio, similare a quello che sta attraversando la Grecia, si è verificato nei paesi Baltici, in particolare sulla Lettonia.
Dopo un paio d'anni i corsi sono risaliti ed ora sta meglio.

Contrariamente alla Grecia, la Latvia poteva però stampare moneta, in qualche modo svalutare (anche se aveva la moneta peggata all'euro) ma soprattutto non era il punto di riferimento per lanciare la battaglia contro l'Euro.
 
Zona euro,FTD: Piano svalutazione parziale debito Grecia,Irlanda

giovedì 20 gennaio 2011 10:37




BERLINO (Reuters) - Le nazioni della zona euro stanno considerando un piano per consentire a Grecia e Irlanda di svalutare parte del loro debito utilizzando il fondo European Financial Stability Facility (Efsf), scrive un quotidiano tedesco.
Senza rivelare le fonti, il Financial Times Deutschland sostiene che i ministri delle Finanze dell'Eurogruppo abbiano discusso l'idea in un incontro ordinario a Bruxelles lunedì scorso.
Secondo il piano illustrato dal giornale, l'Efsf potrebbe acquistare bond dagli stati o fornire loro prestiti favorevoli che potrebbero essere usati per riacquistare debito o per ridurre le passività.
Il ministero delle Finanze tedesco ha negato ieri indiscrezioni stampa su un piano allo studio di Berlino per permettere alla Grecia di riacquistare debito attraverso l'Efsf, il fondo anticrisi creato l'anno scorso per proteggere la moneta unica europea.


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In italiano ...
 
Greece deserves better interest rates: finance minister

20 January 2011 | 12:03 | FOCUS News Agency


Athens. Greece hopes to broker cheaper interest rates on rescue loans from fellow EU states after showing "credibility" in its efforts to reduce its enormous debt, the Greek finance minister has said, cited by AFP.
"A discussion has begun on the cost of borrowing which is very important for us," George Papaconstantinou told TV station Mega late Wednesday.
"As we regain our credibility, we are more able to demand and negotiate ... better treatment," the minister said.
In May, Athens faced bankruptcy and had to appeal for a loan rescue from other European Union states at over five percent, a rate which market analysts see as difficult to sustain given Greece's continued economic frailty.
At the time, the government had just revealed that official economic data had been misreported to Brussels and Greece's deficit estimate kept rising.
"We knew from the start, and had told our creditors very clearly, that the high rate at which we borrowed is not viable in the medium-term," Papaconstantinou said.
He noted that suspicion towards Greece was "understandable" at the time.
 
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