1.   Only part of the tax shortfall is expected to be structural, the finance minister said.

2.   Russia has lurched through plenty of scares in the last seven years, ranging from currency collapses and government reshuffles to tax collection shortfalls and unsustainably high interest rates.

3.   The Duma recently responded to the tax shortfalls by raising the tax rate for its richest citizens.

4.   The council expects little progress in narrowing government deficits, after tax shortfalls prompted emergency spending cuts.

5.   The government is expecting a tax revenue shortfall this year.

6.   This would, of course, create an even heavier burden for future taxpayers when the IOUs must be redeemed to cover tax shortfalls.

7.   He blamed lower customs revenues and slow industrial growth for the tax shortfall.

8.   Police, fire, sanitation and other city services could also face tax revenue shortfalls as a result, he said.

9.   Police, fire, sanitation and other city services would face tax revenue shortfalls, he said.

10.   The government is to announce an estimate of its latest tax shortfall next month.