Budgeting and Public Finance

Budget is the tool through which governments decide how much to spend on what, limiting expenditures to the revenues available, and preventing overspending.

Introduction

Budget is the tool through which governments decide how much to spend on what, limiting expenditures to the revenues available, and preventing overspending (Anessi-Pessina et al. 2016). The budget aims to turn plans and aspirations into reality. The budget thus constitutes revenue on the one hand and expenditure on the other. Budget revenues and expenditures can be divided according to more criteria and according to the customs in the given state. For example, this revolves around types of income and expenditures, i.e., tax and non-tax revenue, current expenditures (e.g., energy, services, employee salaries, etc.,) and capital expenditures (e.g., construction of motorways.