Description
In economics and political science, fiscal policy is the use of government revenue collection (taxation) and expenditure (spending) to influence the economy.
Concepts of Fiscal policy
Fiscal policy
• Fiscal policy refers to the policy of the government regarding
• Taxation (Revenue collection through taxes) • Public expenditure • Public debt
• Governments all over the world have been using fiscal measures to regulate their economic activities in order to achieve objectives.
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Objectives of fiscal policy
• Accelerating the rate of investment • Achieving rapid economic development • Achieving full employment • Promoting foreign trade • Fiscal policy operates through the budget and
hence also called as budgetary policy.
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The Budget
• Budget is derived from from the French word ‘Bougette’, which means a leather bag or wallet used to carry financial papers. • Budget is a master financial plan of the Govt.
• It brings estimates of anticipated revenues and proposed expenditures
• It is a device for consolidating various interests, objectives and needs of people into a programme.
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• Budget is divided into 2 parts, revenue budget and capital budget. • Revenue budget deals with revenue items
• receipts from taxes, interest, dividend • administrative expenditure
• Capital budget is the statement of all capex and capital receipts like market loans, external aid, deposits.
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Instruments of Fiscal policy
• Taxation
• Public Expenditure
• Government Borrowing • Deficit Financing • Budget
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Taxation
• A non quid pro quo payment by the people to the government • Sources of tax revenue
• Direct taxes - personal and corporate tax • Indirect taxes - Customs, Excise and VAT
• Sound tax system, with moderate rates and a broad base, is an integral part of the prudent fiscal policy. • The expansion in the tax base is sought to be achieved through expansion in the scope of taxes, specifically service tax, removal of exemptions and improvement in tax administration
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Taxation reforms
• Domestic Co. 30% – 40%
• Foreign Co. 45%
• Special tax benefits to power sector, SEZ & shipping Ind. • Widening of service tax base • Introduction of state-level VAT for achieving a self-enforcing & harmonized commodity taxation regime
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Public expenditure
• Plan expenditure - govt. plans to incur on a scheme to be implemented in a given year. • Non-plan expenditure is generally an outcome of plan expenditure
• Return generated should be greater than the cost of capital, but cannot always work on profit motive
• Expected to release a summary of their monthly receipts and expenses to public.
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Government Borrowing
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Borrowing is the quickest Mode of raising funds to finance schemes of economic development. Market loans – Govt. sells securities & treasury bills to institutions & public Small savings – Postal accounts, PPF To meet the uncovered gap between total expenditure and total receipts
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Deficit Financing
DEFICIT = Govt expenditure - Govt receipts from the public.
• Expenditure < Income = Surplus • Expenditure > Income = Deficit
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Need for deficit financing
• The resources required for development far exceeds the amount which can be raised by normal means of resource mobilization, viz., taxation, borrowing, surpluses from public enterprises, etc.
• The uncovered gap is made up by deficit financing.
• The developing countries keen to promote rapid economic growth
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Budget at a Glance (Rs.Crore )
Classification
1.Revenue Receipts out of which a. Tax Revenue b. Non Tax Revenue 2. Capital Receipts out of which a. Loans and Grants b. Other receipts c. Borrowings of central govt 6655 3500 32645 62739 22470
Yearly estimate 84209
42800
3. Total Receipts ( 1+2)
127009
Budget at a Glance (Rs.Crore )
Classification 3. Total Receipts ( 1+2) 4. Revenue Expenditure 5. Capital Expenditure 6. Total Expenditure (4+5) 7. Budgetary Deficit (6-3) 8.Revenue Deficit (4-1) ( Rev Exp – Rev.receipts) 9. Fiscal Deficit (7+2c) 101839 84209 101839 29484 Yearly estimate
127009
131323 4314 17630 36259
Revenue Receipts & Expenditure
Receipts which don’t involve disposal of assets or incurring liabilities are Revenue Receipts. Direct Taxes – Income tax, corporate tax
Indirect taxes – Excise duty, customs duty, Service tax
Non-tax revenue like interest, dividend are also accounted in Revenue receipts
Revenue Expenditure is that which don’t add to Govt. assets like salaries of Govt. employees, maint. Of public utilities
Capital receipts include
•
• •
Govt. market borrowings,
small savings ( postal savings, PPF ) External assistance like Loans, grants received from international agencies
Capital expenditure refers to items that involve purchase of assets – investment in railways, roads, power projects , irrigation works
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Deficit Financing
• Greater part of budgetary gap is resorted through deficit financing • Tools of deficit finance include
• Borrowing by central govt against Treasury Bills • Withdrawal of accumulated cash balances of the
govt from RBI
• Issuance of new currency by the govt.
• Deficit financing must be within manageable limit as excessive use of ‘created money’ may fuel inflationary tendencies.
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Fiscal deficit
• Fiscal deficit is the sum of the amount the central govt borrows and the overall budget deficit in order to meet the excess expenditure over receipts during a financial year
• Fiscal deficit = Borrowings of central govt + Budgetary deficit
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Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003 The FRBMA
• This Act seeks to control fiscal deficit on the part of govt • The Act came into force on July 5th 2004. • Revenue deficit is to be eliminated by March 09 • Fiscal deficit should be reduced by an amount equivalent to 0.3% of the estimated GDP at the end of each financial year
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In economics and political science, fiscal policy is the use of government revenue collection (taxation) and expenditure (spending) to influence the economy.
Concepts of Fiscal policy
Fiscal policy
• Fiscal policy refers to the policy of the government regarding
• Taxation (Revenue collection through taxes) • Public expenditure • Public debt
• Governments all over the world have been using fiscal measures to regulate their economic activities in order to achieve objectives.
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Objectives of fiscal policy
• Accelerating the rate of investment • Achieving rapid economic development • Achieving full employment • Promoting foreign trade • Fiscal policy operates through the budget and
hence also called as budgetary policy.
3 of 38
The Budget
• Budget is derived from from the French word ‘Bougette’, which means a leather bag or wallet used to carry financial papers. • Budget is a master financial plan of the Govt.
• It brings estimates of anticipated revenues and proposed expenditures
• It is a device for consolidating various interests, objectives and needs of people into a programme.
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• Budget is divided into 2 parts, revenue budget and capital budget. • Revenue budget deals with revenue items
• receipts from taxes, interest, dividend • administrative expenditure
• Capital budget is the statement of all capex and capital receipts like market loans, external aid, deposits.
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Instruments of Fiscal policy
• Taxation
• Public Expenditure
• Government Borrowing • Deficit Financing • Budget
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Taxation
• A non quid pro quo payment by the people to the government • Sources of tax revenue
• Direct taxes - personal and corporate tax • Indirect taxes - Customs, Excise and VAT
• Sound tax system, with moderate rates and a broad base, is an integral part of the prudent fiscal policy. • The expansion in the tax base is sought to be achieved through expansion in the scope of taxes, specifically service tax, removal of exemptions and improvement in tax administration
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Taxation reforms
• Domestic Co. 30% – 40%
• Foreign Co. 45%
• Special tax benefits to power sector, SEZ & shipping Ind. • Widening of service tax base • Introduction of state-level VAT for achieving a self-enforcing & harmonized commodity taxation regime
8 of 38
Public expenditure
• Plan expenditure - govt. plans to incur on a scheme to be implemented in a given year. • Non-plan expenditure is generally an outcome of plan expenditure
• Return generated should be greater than the cost of capital, but cannot always work on profit motive
• Expected to release a summary of their monthly receipts and expenses to public.
9 of 38
Government Borrowing
?
? ? ?
Borrowing is the quickest Mode of raising funds to finance schemes of economic development. Market loans – Govt. sells securities & treasury bills to institutions & public Small savings – Postal accounts, PPF To meet the uncovered gap between total expenditure and total receipts
10 of 38
Deficit Financing
DEFICIT = Govt expenditure - Govt receipts from the public.
• Expenditure < Income = Surplus • Expenditure > Income = Deficit
11 of 38
Need for deficit financing
• The resources required for development far exceeds the amount which can be raised by normal means of resource mobilization, viz., taxation, borrowing, surpluses from public enterprises, etc.
• The uncovered gap is made up by deficit financing.
• The developing countries keen to promote rapid economic growth
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Budget at a Glance (Rs.Crore )
Classification
1.Revenue Receipts out of which a. Tax Revenue b. Non Tax Revenue 2. Capital Receipts out of which a. Loans and Grants b. Other receipts c. Borrowings of central govt 6655 3500 32645 62739 22470
Yearly estimate 84209
42800
3. Total Receipts ( 1+2)
127009
Budget at a Glance (Rs.Crore )
Classification 3. Total Receipts ( 1+2) 4. Revenue Expenditure 5. Capital Expenditure 6. Total Expenditure (4+5) 7. Budgetary Deficit (6-3) 8.Revenue Deficit (4-1) ( Rev Exp – Rev.receipts) 9. Fiscal Deficit (7+2c) 101839 84209 101839 29484 Yearly estimate
127009
131323 4314 17630 36259
Revenue Receipts & Expenditure
Receipts which don’t involve disposal of assets or incurring liabilities are Revenue Receipts. Direct Taxes – Income tax, corporate tax
Indirect taxes – Excise duty, customs duty, Service tax
Non-tax revenue like interest, dividend are also accounted in Revenue receipts
Revenue Expenditure is that which don’t add to Govt. assets like salaries of Govt. employees, maint. Of public utilities
Capital receipts include
•
• •
Govt. market borrowings,
small savings ( postal savings, PPF ) External assistance like Loans, grants received from international agencies
Capital expenditure refers to items that involve purchase of assets – investment in railways, roads, power projects , irrigation works
16 of 38
Deficit Financing
• Greater part of budgetary gap is resorted through deficit financing • Tools of deficit finance include
• Borrowing by central govt against Treasury Bills • Withdrawal of accumulated cash balances of the
govt from RBI
• Issuance of new currency by the govt.
• Deficit financing must be within manageable limit as excessive use of ‘created money’ may fuel inflationary tendencies.
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Fiscal deficit
• Fiscal deficit is the sum of the amount the central govt borrows and the overall budget deficit in order to meet the excess expenditure over receipts during a financial year
• Fiscal deficit = Borrowings of central govt + Budgetary deficit
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Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003 The FRBMA
• This Act seeks to control fiscal deficit on the part of govt • The Act came into force on July 5th 2004. • Revenue deficit is to be eliminated by March 09 • Fiscal deficit should be reduced by an amount equivalent to 0.3% of the estimated GDP at the end of each financial year
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