What is public sector expendature? ✔️✔️Spending by centeral goverment, local government and
public corporations
What is capital expendature ✔️✔️Spending on long term projects, this helps to create productive
capacity (e.g building hospitals )
What is current expendature ✔️✔️This covers day to day running costs of government (e.g the pay of
public sector workers)
What is a transfer payment ✔️✔️A payment to an individual or firm for which there is no economic
benefit given in return ( e.g pensions)
Government "golden rules "about public sector spending ✔️✔️. Borrowing should not be used to
finance current spending
. Accounting for capital and current spending should be separate so that it's easy to see which is which
. Public sector debt , as a proportion of GDP should be kept low
Reasons for public sector expendature ✔️✔️.provide public goods
.provide merit goods
.Provide security
.provide wellfair
.Redistribute income
Areas of government expendature ✔️✔️Health, education , nhs,security,transport ect....
Trends in gov expenditure ✔️✔️Increase in expendature on health and education but social security
spending has decreased because the ageing population has led to more spending on retirement
pensions
, What are the 3 main areas of gov expendature ✔️✔️Social protection
Health care
Education
What are areas of gov income ✔️✔️.interestand rents
.surpluses of nationalised industries
.privatisation of national industries
. The national lottery
What are direct taxes ? ✔️✔️Those taxes which are taken directly from individuals and firms by the
government .they are sent directly to the entity who imposed it .
Examples of direct tax ✔️✔️.national insurance
.corporation tax
.corporation tax
.council tax
.ect ...
What is indirect taxation ✔️✔️Thèse are taxes on spending and production therefore the amount paid
depends on the level of consumption and production.the tax is not collected by government source a
third party will intermediary will collect it and pass it on to the government .
Examples of indirect taxation ✔️✔️.customes tax
.excise duties
.petrol tax
.vehicle tax
Ect...