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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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Solution
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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