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प्रश्न
Explain 'Revenue Deficit in a Government budget? What does it indicate?
What is revenue deficit in government budget?
Explain the meaning of Revenue deficit
What is revenue deficit?
Define revenue deficit
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उत्तर
Revenue deficit means the excess of revenue expenditure of the government over its revenue receipts.
Revenue deficit = Revenue expenditure − Revenue receipts
Revenue deficit is indicated to the government as follows:
- Regular receipts of the government are not enough to meet regular expenditures.
- The government is using up savings of other sectors of the economy to meet its consumption expenditure.
- This gives a signal to either reduce its expenditure or increase its revenue. Curtail expenditure by taking steps to avoid unproductive expenses and increase revenue from various sources of tax and non-tax revenues
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Fiscal deficit equals :
(a) Interest payments
(b) Borrowings
(c) Interest payments less borrowing
(d) Borrowing less interest payments
Distinguish between revenue deficit and fiscal deficit.
Define fiscal deficit.
Give the relationship between the revenue deficit and the fiscal deficit.
Explain the relation between government deficit and government debt.
What do you understand by G.S.T?
Classify the following statement into positive economic or normative economic, with suitable reason:
Government should try to control the rising fiscal deficit.
Suppose you are a member of the "Advisory Committee to the Finance Minister of India". The Finance Minister is concerned about the rising Revenue Deficit in the budget.
Suggest anyone measure to control the rising Revenue Deficit of the government.
The primary deficit in a government budget is ______.
| S. No. | Content | Rs (in crores) |
| 1. | Revenue Expenditure | 100 |
| 2. | Capital Receipts | 40 |
| 3. | Net Borrowings | 38 |
| 4. | Net Interest Payments | 27 |
| 5. | Tax Revenue | 50 |
| 6. | Non-tax Revenue | 15 |
Which of the following is the formula for revenue deficit?
| S. No. | Content | Rs (in crores) |
| 1. | Revenue Expenditure | 100 |
| 2. | Capital Receipts | 40 |
| 3. | Net Borrowings | 38 |
| 4. | Net Interest Payments | 27 |
| 5. | Tax Revenue | 50 |
| 6. | Non-tax Revenue | 15 |
Which of the following is MOST LIKELY to be the main contributor to the fiscal deficit in this case?
Read the following statements carefully and choose the correct alternatives given below:
Statement 1: Fiscal Deficit = Total Budget Expenditure - Total Budget Receipts (Net of borrowing)
Statement 2: Primary Deficit = Fiscal Deficit + Interest Payments.
The difference between fiscal deficit and interest payment is known as ______
______ are those transactions that are undertaken to cover deficit or surplus in autonomous transactions.
Identify the correctly matched pair of the items in Column A to those in Column B:
| Column A | Column B | ||
| 1 | Fiscal Deficit | (a) | Other than interest payments |
| 2 | Primary Deficit | (b) | Borrowings less interest payments |
| 3 | Revenue Deficit | (c) | Borrowings |
| 4 | Tax Deficit | (d) | Borrowings in government budget |
Which of the following statements is true?
Primary deficit is borrowing requirements of government for making:
