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"We do not believe it will be possible to reach a 3.5% of GDP primary surplus [in 2018] by relying on hiking already high taxes levied on a narrow base, cutting excessively discretionary spending and counting on one-off measures as has been proposed in recent weeks".
It does not rely on one-off measures to rein in the deficit.
One reason is that one-off measures, from selling tax arrears to international banks to grabbing pension funds from state firms, took priority over deeper reforms to stem spending on public-sector wages, social security and health.
Parliament on Tuesday backed a set of one-off measures aimed at boosting the effective spending of €35 billion earmarked for Greece in the EU 2014-2020 budget.
At the same meeting Spain's government was granted permission to loosen its own fiscal targets.Ministers say that Hungary is on target, but EU officials counter that it will only meet the 3% limit through arbitrary one-off measures such as crisis taxes on banks, retail and other sectors.
However, it was only reached by ignoring the interest payments on Greece's borrowings, the cost of recapitalising its banks, and other one-off measures.
Any one-off measures probably would not work.
But that was largely due to one-off measures.
Budget deficits have been kept down mainly by one-off measures.
But much of this increase reflected cyclical or one-off measures.
Previous comprehensive scans have been carried out, such as the 2012 Internet Census, but all to date have been one-off measures.
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