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chap 14
Term | Definition |
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national budget | is a document witch gives a detailed breakdown of government income and expenditure for the next year |
government borrowing requirement | the amount of money that has to be borrowed each year |
current budget | outlines the expenditure needed to run the country on day to day bases |
capital budget | outlines the expenditure on capital projects |
income tax | paid by all workers |
value added tax | tax on goods and services |
custom duties | tax on goods entering the country |
excise duties | tax on cigarettes,alcohol..etc |
corporation tax | a tax on the profits of a company |
dirt | tax charged on the interest earned on a deposit acount |
capital expenditure | a non-recurring one of expenditure on buying fixed assets |
capital income | received once only and is used for capital expenditure |
opportunity cost | the opportunity cost of providing an item is the loss of the other item that could have been provided for instead with the same money |
balanced budget | expenditure=income |
budget surplus | income is greater than expenditure |
budget deficit | expenditure is greater than income |
public utilities | services provided by the government |
semi-state | businesses ran by the government |
dept servicing | paying the interest on the national dept |
national dept | the total amount of money that has been borrowed by the government over the years |