[Analytical Perspectives]
[Federal Receipts and Collections]
[4. User Fees and Other Collections]
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4. USER FEES AND OTHER COLLECTIONS
In addition to collecting taxes and other receipts by the exercise of
its sovereign powers, which is discussed in the previous chapter, the
Federal Government collects income from the public from market-oriented
activities. Examples of these collections include the sale of postage
stamps and electricity, fees for admittance to national parks, premiums
for deposit insurance, and rents and royalties for the right to extract
oil from the Outer Continental shelf.
Depending on the laws that authorize the collections, they can be
credited directly to expenditure accounts as ``offsetting collections,''
where they are usually available for expenditure without further action
by Congress, or they are credited to receipt accounts as ``offsetting
receipts,'' which may be appropriated to expenditure accounts through
action by the Congress. The budget refers to them as offsetting
collections and offsetting receipts, because they are subtracted from
gross outlays rather than added to taxes on the receipts side of the
budget. The purpose of this treatment is to produce budget totals for
receipts, outlays, and budget authority in terms of the amount of
resources allocated governmentally, through collective political choice,
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\1\ Showing collections from business-type transactions as offsets on
the spending side of the budget follows the concept recommended by the
1967 Report of the President's Commission on Budget Concepts. The
concept is discussed in Chapter 24: ``Budget System and Concepts and
Glossary'' in this volume.
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Offsetting collections and receipts include most user fees, which are
discussed below, as well as some amounts that are not user fees. Table
4-1 summarizes these transactions. For 2001, total offsetting
collections and receipts from the public are estimated to be $214.8
billion, and total user fees are estimated to be $148.6 billion.
The following section discusses user fees and the Administration's
user fee proposals. The subsequent section displays more information on
offsetting collections and receipts. The offsetting collections and
receipts by agency are also displayed in Table 20-1, ``Outlays to the
Public, Net and Gross,'' which appears in Chapter 20 of this volume.
TABLE 4-1. GROSS OUTLAYS, USER FEES, OTHER OFFSETTING COLLECTIONS AND
RECEIPTS FROM THE PUBLIC, AND NET OUTLAYS
(In billions of dollars)
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Estimate
Actual -------------------
1999 2000 2001
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Gross outlays............................. 1,910.3 2,001.6 2,049.8
Offsetting collections and receipts from
the public:
User fees \1\......................... 137.0 137.6 147.2
Other................................. 70.3 74.4 67.6
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Subtotal, offsetting collections and 207.3 212.0 214.8
receipts from the public...........
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Net outlays............................... 1,703.0 1,789.6 1,835.0
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\1\ Total user fees are shown below. They include user fees that are
classified on the receipts side of the budget in addition to the
amounts shown on this line. For additional details of total user fees,
see Table 4-2. ``Total User Fee Collections.''
Total user fees:
Offsetting collections and 137.0 137.6 147.2
receipts from the public......
Receipts....................... 1.0 1.1 1.5
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Total user fees.................. 138.0 138.7 148.6
USER FEES
I. Introduction and Background
The Federal Government may charge user fees to those who benefit
directly from a particular activity or those subject to regulation.
According to the definition of user fees used in this chapter, Table 4-2
shows that user fees were $138.0 billion in 1999, and are estimated to
increase to $138.7 billion in 2000 and to $148.6 billion in 2001,
growing to an estimated $176.4 billion in 2005, including the user fee
proposals proposed in this budget, which are shown in Table 4-3. This
table shows that the Administration is proposing to increase user fees
by an estimated $3.8 billion in 2001, growing to an estimated $7.7
billion in 2005.
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Why User Fees?
The term ``user fee'' refers to Government charges to those who use a Government good or service or are subject to Government regulation.
For example:
--Park entrance fees charged to visitors to national parks
--Meat, poultry, and egg inspection fees
--Tennessee Valley Authority proceeds from power sales
--Proceeds from the lease of federally-owned buildings and facilities
--Flood insurance premiums
--Sales of commemorative coins
User fees are earmarked to fund part or all of the cost of providing the service or regulation by crediting them to a program account
instead of to the general fund of the Treasury.
User fees are different from general revenue, because they are not collected from the general public or broad segments of the public (e.g.,
income taxes or customs duties) and they are not used for the general purposes of government (e.g., national defense).
Users are more willing to support and pay fees when they are dedicated to maintaining or improving the quality of the programs that affect
them directly.
Government program managers may be more diligent about collecting and spending fees when funding for their programs depends on fees,
instead of appropriations of general taxpayer money.
Administration policy is to shift to user fee funding wherever appropriate. However, essential government services will continue to be
supported by general fund appropriations from the Treasury as necessary.
The Administration's user fee proposals generally require authorizing legislation to authorize the fees first and appropriations action
before the fees can actually be collected and spent. This is done to preserve the traditional roles of the authorizing and appropriations
committees in Congress and to conform to the ``scoring'' conventions of the Budget Enforcement Act.
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Definition. The term ``user fee'' as defined here is fees, charges,
and assessments levied on a class directly benefiting from, or subject
to regulation by, a government program or activity, and to be utilized
solely to support the program or activity. In addition, the payers of
the fee must be limited to those benefiting from, or subject to
regulation by, the program or activity, and may not include the general
public or a broad segment of the public. The user fee must be authorized
for use only to fund the specified programs or activities for which it
is charged, including directly associated agency functions, not for
unrelated programs or activities and not for the broad purposes of the
Government or an agency.
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Examples of business-type or market-oriented user fees
include fees for the sale of postal services (the sale of
stamps), electricity (e.g., sales by the Tennessee Valley
Authority), payments for Medicare voluntary supplemental
medical insurance, life insurance premiums for veterans,
recreation fees for parks, NASA fees for shuttle services, the
sale of weather maps and related information by the Department
of Commerce, the sale of commemorative coins, and fees for the
sale of books.
Examples of regulatory and licensing user fees include fees
for regulating the nuclear energy industry, bankruptcy filing
fees, immigration fees, food inspection fees, passport fees,
and patent and trademark fees.
User fees do not include all offsetting collections and receipts,
such as the interest and repayments received from credit programs;
proceeds from the sale of loans and other financial investments;
interest, dividends, and other earnings; cost sharing contributions; the
sale of timber, minerals, oil, commodities, and other natural resources;
proceeds from asset sales (property, plant, and equipment); Outer
Continental Shelf receipts; or spectrum auction proceeds. Neither do
they include earmarked taxes (such as taxes paid to social insurance
programs or excise taxes), or customs duties, fines, penalties, and
forfeitures.
Alternative definitions. The definition used in this chapter is useful
because it identifies goods, services, and regulations financed by
earmarked collections and receipts. \2\ Other definitions may be used
for other purposes, such as establishing policy for charging prices to
the public for goods and services regardless of whether the proceeds are
earmarked.
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\2\ The definition used here is similar to one the House of
Representatives uses as a guide for purposes of committee jurisdiction.
The definition helps differentiate between taxes, which are under the
jurisdiction of the Ways and Means Committee, and fees, which can be
under the jurisdiction of other committees. See the Congressional
Record, January 3, 1991, p. H31, item 8.
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Alternative definitions could, for example:
be narrower than the one used here, by excluding regulatory
fees and analyzing them as a separate category.
be broader than the one used here, by:
--eliminating the requirement that fees be earmarked. The
definition would then include fees that go to the general fund
in addition to those that are earmarked to finance the related
activity.
--including the sale of resources as well as goods and services,
such as natural resources (e.g., timber, oil, or minerals) and
property, plant, and equipment.
--interpreting more broadly whether a program has private
beneficiaries, or whether the proceeds are earmarked to benefit
directly those paying the fee. A broader interpretation might
include beneficiary- or liability-based excise taxes. \3\
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\3\ Beneficiary- and liability-based taxes are terms taken from the
Congressional Budget Office, The Growth of Federal User Charges, August
1993, and updated in October 1995. Examples of beneficiary-based taxes
include taxes on gasoline, which finance grants to States for highway
construction, or taxes on airline tickets, which finance air traffic
control activities and airports. An example of a liability-based tax is
the excise tax that helps fund the hazardous substance superfund in the
Environmental Protection Agency. This tax is paid by industry groups to
finance environmental cleanup activities related to the industry
activity but not necessarily caused by the payer of the fee.
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What is the purpose of user fees? The purpose of user fees is to
improve the efficiency and equity of certain Government activities, and
to reduce the bur
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den on the taxpayer to finance activities whose benefits accrue to a
relatively limited number of people.
User fees that are set to cover the costs of production of
goods and services can provide efficiency in the allocation of
resources within the economy. They allocate goods and services
to those who value them the most, and they signal to the
government how much of the goods or services it should
provide. Prices in private, competitive markets serve the same
purposes.
User fees for goods and services that do not have special
social benefits improve equity, or fairness, by requiring that
those who benefit from an activity are the same people who pay
for it. The public often perceives user fees as fair because
those who benefit from the good or service pay for it in whole
or in part, and those who do not benefit do not pay.
When should the Government charge a fee? Discussions of whether to
finance spending with a tax or a fee often focus on whether the benefits
of the activity are to the public in general or to a limited group of
people. As a general rule, if the benefits accrue to the public in
general, then the program should be financed by taxes paid by the
public; in contrast, if the benefits accrue to a limited number of
private individuals or groups, then the program should be financed by
fees paid by the private beneficiaries. For Federal programs where the
benefits are entirely public or entirely private, applying this rule is
relatively easy. For example, according to this rule, the benefits from
national defense accrue to the public in general and should be (and are)
financed by taxes. In contrast, the benefits of electricity sold by the
Tennessee Valley Authority accrue exclusively to those using the
electricity, and should be (and are) financed by user fees.
In many cases, however, an activity has benefits that accrue to both
public and to private groups, and it may be difficult to identify how
much of the benefits accrue to each. Because of this, it can be
difficult to know how much of the program should be financed by taxes
and how much by fees. For example, the benefits from recreation areas
are mixed. Fees for visitors to these areas are appropriate because the
visitors benefit directly from their visit, but the public in general
also benefits because these areas protect the Nation's natural and
historical heritage now and for posterity.
As a further complication, where a fee may be appropriate to finance
all or part of an activity, some consideration must be given to the ease
of administering the fee.
What should be the amount of the fee? For programs that have private
beneficiaries, the amount of the fee should depend on the costs of
producing the goods or services and the portion of the program that is
for private benefits. If the benefit is primarily private, and any
public benefits are incidental, the Administration supports fees that
cover the full cost to the Government, including both direct and
indirect costs. \4\
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\4\ Policies for setting user charges are promulgated in OMB Circular
No. A-25: ``User Charges'' (July 8, 1993). These policies are required
regardless of whether or not the proceeds are earmarked to finance the
related activity.
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The Administration is working to put cost accounting systems in place
across the Government that would make the calculation of full cost more
feasible. The difficulties in measuring full cost are associated in part
with allocating to an activity the full costs of capital, retirement
benefits, and insurance, as well as other Federal costs that may appear
in other parts of the budget. Guidance in the Statement of Federal
Financial Accounting Standards No. 4, Managerial Cost Accounting
Concepts and Standards for the Federal Government (July 31, 1995),
should underlie cost accounting in the Federal Government.
Classification of user fees in the budget. As shown in Table 4-1, most
user fees are classified as offsets to outlays on the spending side of
the budget, but a few are classified on the receipts side of the budget.
An estimated $1.5 billion in 2001 are classified this way and are
included in the totals described in Chapter 3. ``Federal Receipts.''
They are classified as receipts because they are regulatory fees
collected by the Federal Government by the exercise of its sovereign
powers.
The remaining user fees, an estimated $147.2 billion in 2001, are
classified as offsetting collections and receipts on the spending side
of the budget. Some of these are collected by the Federal Government by
the exercise of its sovereign powers and would normally appear on the
receipts side of the budget, but are required by law to be classified as
offsetting collections or receipts.
An estimated $107.0 billion of user fees for 2001 are
credited directly to expenditure accounts, and are generally
available for expenditure when they are collected, without
further action by the Congress.
An estimated $40.1 billion for 2001 are deposited in
offsetting receipt accounts, and generally are not available
to be spent unless appropriated by the Congress each year.
As a further classification, the following Tables 4-2 and 4-3
identify the fees as discretionary or mandatory. These classifications
are terms from the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 as amended and are
used frequently in the analysis of the budget. ``Discretionary'' in this
chapter refers to fees generally controlled through annual
appropriations acts and under the jurisdiction of the appropriations
committees in the Congress. These fees offset discretionary spending
under the discretionary caps. ``Mandatory'' refers to fees controlled by
permanent laws and under the jurisdiction of the authorizing committees.
These fees are subject to rules of paygo, whereby changes in law
affecting mandatory programs and receipts cannot result in a net cost.
Mandatory spending is sometimes referred to as direct spending.
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These and other classifications are discussed further in this volume
in Chapter 24, ``Budget System and Concepts and Glossary.''
II. Current User Fees
As shown in Table 4-2, ``Total User Fee Collections,'' total user fee
collections (including those proposed in this budget) are estimated to
be $148.6 billion in 2001, increasing to $176.4 billion in 2005. User
fee collections by the Postal Service, Medicare premiums, and foreign
military sales are the largest and are estimated to be more than two-
thirds of all existing user fee collections in 2001.
User fee collections are used to offset outlays in both the
discretionary and mandatory parts of the budget. Discretionary user fee
collections are estimated to be $16.6 billion in 2001. The
Administration is proposing to make collections from Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) cost-based user fees, the new harbor services fee,
and proposed fees for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
available to offset discretionary spending.
III. User Fee Proposals
The Administration is proposing the new or increased user fees shown
in Table 4-3: ``User Fee Proposals.'' These proposals would increase
user fee collections by an estimated $3.8 billion in 2001, increasing to
$7.7 billion in 2005.
A. User Fee Proposals to Offset Discretionary Spending
1. Proposals for Discretionary User Fees
a. Offsetting collections deposited in appropriation accounts
Department of Agriculture
Food Safety and Inspection Service meat, poultry, and egg inspection
fees.--This budget proposes a new user fee for the Food Safety and
Inspection Service. Under the proposed fee the meat, poultry and egg
industries would be required to reimburse the Federal government for the
cost of the salaries and benefits and other direct costs for all in-
plant inspection. The proposal would transfer the cost of Federal
inspection services to the industries that directly benefit, and would
ensure that sufficient resources are available to provide the level of
in-plant inspection necessary to meet the demands of industry. The cost
of the user fee would amount to less than one cent per pound of meat
inspected.
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).--The budget
proposes to establish fees to cover the cost of providing animal welfare
inspections to recipients of APHIS services such as animal research
centers, humane societies, and kennels. Fees would also be established
to cover the cost of issuing biotechnology certificates to firms that
manufacture products derived through biotechnological innovation.
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA)
licensing fees.--The budget proposes to charge the grain industry for
GIPSA's costs to review and maintain standards (such as grain quality
and classification) that are used by the industry. In addition, an
annual licensing fee is proposed to fund GIPSA activities that ensure
the integrity of the livestock, meat and poultry market and marketplace,
such as fostering open competition, and protecting consumers and
businesses from unfair practices.
Department of Commerce
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), navigational
assistance fees.--The Administration proposes to levy a fee on U.S. and
foreign commercial cargo carriers to recover the cost of navigational
assistance services, such as nautical charting, provided by NOAA.
Fisheries management fees.--The budget proposes to levy a fee to
recover a portion of the costs of providing fisheries management and
enforcement services.
Department of Health and Human Services
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fees.--The budget seeks $19 million
in new fees to finance FDA activities for the review of new medical
devices and food additives, and for food export certifications. These
fees will be used to augment current funding for these activities.
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA).--These proposals would
establish fees for a variety of activities associated with the Medicare
program, including:
Managed care application and renewal fees.--The Administration
proposes to charge managed care organizations a fee to cover the cost of
reviewing initial applications and renewing annual contracts with
Medicare. Proceeds from this fee would be used to offset funding for
Federal administrative expenses related to managed care organization
applications and renewals.
Provider initial certification fees.--The Administration proposes
to levy a fee on providers (e.g., home health agencies and skilled
nursing facilities) who wish to enter the Medicare program. The fee
would vary by type of provider. Proceeds from this fee would be used to
offset survey and certification funding.
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Table 4-2. TOTAL USER FEE COLLECTIONS
(In millions of dollars)
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Estimates
1999 -----------------------------------------------------------
actual 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
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Receipts
Proposed FAA user fees to replace excise ........ ........ 965 1,866 1,999 2,030 2,030
taxes \1\................................
Harbor maintenance and inland waterway 553 675 ........ ........ ........ ........ ........
fees \2\.................................
Agricultural quarantine inspection fees... 172 188 215 217 220 223 225
Other governmental receipt user fees...... 248 255 281 286 287 293 298
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Subtotal, governmental receipts........ 973 1,118 1,461 2,369 2,506 2,546 2,553
Offsetting Collections and Receipts from
the Public
Discretionary
Department of Agriculture: Food safety 167 186 735 735 737 741 746
inspection and other fees..............
Department of Commerce: Patent and 1,021 1,123 1,304 1,304 1,319 1,352 1,382
trademark, fees for weather services,
and other fees.........................
Department of Defense: Commissary and 7,345 6,438 6,366 6,347 6,347 6,347 6,347
other fees.............................
Department of Energy: Federal Energy 508 631 655 645 643 641 619
Regulation Commission and other fees...
Department of Health and Human Services: 316 338 657 657 664 681 696
Food and Drug Administration, Health
Care Financing Administration, and
other fees.............................
Department of the Interior: Bureau of 235 260 250 250 252 260 264
Land Management and other fees.........
Department of Justice: Antitrust and 343 314 590 590 596 611 625
other fees.............................
Department of State: Visa, passport, and 365 411 451 451 456 468 478
other fees.............................
Department of Transportation: Coast 83 104 464 888 897 921 942
Guard and other fees...................
Department of the Treasury: Sale of 1,906 1,935 1,854 1,854 1,876 1,923 1,965
commemorative coins and other fees.....
Department of Veterans Affairs: Medical 577 603 496 496 501 515 525
care and other fees....................
National Aeronautics and Space 848 956 875 875 875 875 875
Administration: Reimbursement for the
use of NASA services...................
Federal Communications Commission: 173 191 200 200 202 207 212
Regulatory and other fees..............
Federal Trade Commission: Regulatory and 97 111 165 165 167 171 175
other fees.............................
Legislative Branch: Library of Congress 85 119 114 114 114 114 114
and copyright fees.....................
National Credit Union Administration: 102 111 121 121 122 125 128
Stock subscription fees................
Nuclear Regulatory Commission: 442 447 454 454 459 471 481
Regulatory fees........................
Panama Canal Commission: Fees for use of 756 176 ........ ........ ........ ........ ........
the canal..............................
Securities and Exchange Commission: 591 634 650 650 658 674 689
Regulatory fees........................
All other agencies, discretionary user 144 150 199 187 188 191 195
fees...................................
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Subtotal, discretionary offsetting 16,104 15,238 16,600 16,983 17,073 17,288 17,458
collections and receipts.............
Mandatory
Department of Agriculture: Federal crop 883 1,111 1,586 1,557 1,633 1,697 1,727
insurance and other fees...............
Department of Defense: Commissary 257 276 275 275 275 275 275
surcharge and other fees...............
Department of Energy: Proceeds from the 2,889 2,489 2,697 3,162 3,234 3,195 3,140
sale of energy and other fees:.........
Department of Health and Human Services: 21,570 21,744 23,169 25,631 28,214 30,854 33,694
Medicare Part B insurance premiums, and
other fees.............................
Department of the Interior: Recreation 610 575 586 604 621 629 637
and other fees.........................
Department of Justice: Immigration and 1,300 1,498 1,483 1,488 1,516 1,524 1,531
other fees.............................
Department of Labor: Insurance premiums 460 824 1,083 1,013 1,087 1,160 1,233
to guarantee private pensions and other
fees...................................
Department of the Treasury: Customs, 1,813 1,871 1,922 2,001 2,074 2,150 2,229
bank regulation, and other fees........
Department of Veterans Affairs: Veterans 1,696 1,651 1,724 1,720 1,686 1,643 1,606
life insurance and other fees..........
Corps of Engineers: Harbor services and 40 41 1,007 1,004 1,002 1,038 1,056
other fees.............................
Federal Emergency Management Agency: 1,416 1,545 1,756 1,868 1,986 2,121 2,266
Flood insurance fees...................
International Assistance Programs: 11,624 10,560 10,760 10,890 10,920 11,020 11,150
Foreign military sales.................
Office of Personnel Management: Federal 6,093 6,620 7,140 7,677 8,286 8,909 9,539
employee health and life insurance fees
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: 860 374 590 664 1,014 1,548 2,336
Deposit insurance fees.................
National Credit Union Administration: 350 308 326 300 321 347 388
Credit union share insurance and other
fees...................................
Postal Service: Fees for postal services 61,957 63,998 67,421 70,000 72,750 74,100 75,650
(e. g., sale of stamps)................
Tennessee Valley Authority: Proceeds 6,818 6,590 6,718 6,826 7,078 7,419 7,565
from the sale of energy................
All other agencies, mandatory user fees. 244 287 315 326 313 329 339
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Subtotal, mandatory offsetting 120,880 122,362 130,558 137,006 144,010 149,958 156,361
collections and receipts.............
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Subtotal, offsetting collections and 136,984 137,600 147,158 153,989 161,083 167,246 173,819
receipts.................................
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TOTAL, User fees.......................... 137,957 138,718 148,619 156,358 163,589 169,792 176,372
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\1\ Gross revenue increase from proposed fees. Current aviation excise taxes, which are not user fees, will
gradually be converted to cost-based user fees. While considered governmental receipts, the following proceeds
from the fees, net of income tax offsets, would be made available to offset discretionary spending:
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2000-05
FAA collections available for spending.. ....... ....... 724 1,399 1,499 1,522 1,522 6,667
\2\ The Budget proposes to convert proceeds to offsetting collections for the Corps of Engineers. While the fee
collection will be mandatory, proceeds from the fee will be made available to offset discretionary spending.
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Table 4-3. USER FEE PROPOSALS
(estimated collections in millions of dollars)
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2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2001-2005
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A. USER FEE PROPOSALS TO OFFSET DISCRETIONARY SPENDING
1. Proposals for Discretionary User Fees
a. Offsetting collections deposited in appropriation
accounts
Department of Agriculture
Food Safety Inspection Service fees.................. 534 641 641 641 641 3,098
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service........... 11 11 11 11 11 55
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards 23 23 23 23 23 115
Administration.......................................
Department of Commerce
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 14 14 14 14 14 70
Navigational assistance fees.........................
Fisheries management fees............................ 20 20 20 20 20 100
Department of Health and Human Services
Food and Drug Administration fees.................... 19 19 19 19 19 95
Health Care Financing Administration fee proposals:
Managed care application and renewal fees.......... 21 21 21 21 21 105
Provider initial certification fees................ 13 13 13 13 13 65
Provider recertification fees...................... 50 50 50 50 50 250
Paper claims submission fees....................... 83 83 83 83 83 415
Duplicate and unprocessable claims fees............ 53 53 53 53 53 265
Increase Medicare+Choice fees...................... 131 130 129 128 128 646
Nursing home criminal abuse registry fee........... 4 4 4 4 4 20
Department of the Interior
User fees on Outer Continental Shelf lands........... 10 10 10 10 10 50
Department of Justice
Hart-Scott Rodino pre-merger filing fees............. 38 38 38 38 38 190
Department of Transportation
Coast Guard, navigational services fees.............. 212 636 644 660 674 2,826
Federal Railroad Administration, rail safety 103 103 103 103 103 515
inspection fees......................................
Hazardous materials transportation safety fees....... 19 19 19 19 19 95
Surface Transportation Board fees.................... 17 17 17 17 17 85
Department of the Treasury
Customs, automation modernization fee................ 210 210 210 210 210 1,050
Federal Trade Commission
Hart-Scott Rodino pre-merger filing fees............. 38 38 38 38 38 190
National Transportation Safety Board
Commercial accident investigation fees............... 10 10 10 10 10 50
b. Offsetting collections deposited in receipt
accounts
Department of Justice
Immigration premium processing fee................... 17 17 17 17 17 85
Increase inspection user fees........................ 167 167 167 167 167 835
Department of Transportation
Pipeline safety fees................................. 11 12 12 12 12 59
Environmental Protection Agency
Pesticide registration fees.......................... 16 ....... ....... ....... ....... 16
Pre-manufacture notice (PMN) fees.................... 4 8 8 8 8 36
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Extend Nuclear Regulatory Commission user fees....... 295 295 295 295 295 1,475
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Subtotal, proposals for discretionary user fees.... 2,143 2,662 2,669 2,684 2,698 12,856
2. Proposals for Mandatory User Fees to Offset
Discretionary Spending
a. Offsetting collections deposited in appropriation
accounts
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
State bank exam fees................................. 92 96 102 106 111 507
b. Offsetting collections deposited in receipt
accounts
Corps of Engineers
Harbor services user fee, replaces harbor maintenance 417 361 313 315 296 1,702
tax \1\..............................................
c. Receipts
Department of Transportation
Federal Aviation Administration cost-based user fees 965 1,866 1,999 2,030 2,030 8,890
(governmental receipt) \2\...........................
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Subtotal, proposals for mandatory user fees to 1,474 2,323 2,414 2,451 2,437 11,099
offset discretionary spending......................
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Subtotal, user fee proposals to offset 3,617 4,985 5,083 5,135 5,135 23,955
discretionary spending.............................
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B. USER FEE PROPOSALS TO OFFSET MANDATORY SPENDING
a. Offsetting collections deposited in appropriation
accounts
Department of Agriculture
Federal crop insurance............................... 69 ....... ....... ....... ....... 69
Department of Labor
Implement alien labor certification fees............. 138 122 122 122 122 626
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Flood map license fee for flood map modernization.... 104 107 109 112 114 546
b. Offsetting collections deposited in receipt
accounts
Department of Agriculture
Recreation and entrance fees.......................... ....... 28 36 48 50 162
Concession, land use, right of way, and filming 6 7 13 13 13 52
permits..............................................
Department of Health and Human Services
Medicare premiums.................................... -180 226 392 418 590 1,446
Department of the Interior
Recreation and entrance fees......................... ....... 73 74 76 74 297
Filming and special use permits fees................. 3 3 4 4 5 19
Hardrock mining production fees...................... ....... 8 26 26 26 86
Department of the Treasury
Customs, extend conveyance/passenger fee............. ....... ....... ....... 424 465 889
Customs, extend merchandise processing fee........... ....... ....... ....... 1,036 1,059 2,095
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Subtotal user fee proposals to offset mandatory 140 574 776 2,279 2,518 6,287
spending...........................................
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Total user fee proposals................................ 3,757 5,559 5,859 7,414 7,653 30,242
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\1\ The amounts shown here are the amounts available to offset discretionary spending. This is the total amount
from the proposed harbor services user fee, less three-fourths (to account for the income tax offset) of the
tax revenues that would be lost from repealing the existing harbor maintenance tax.
\2\ Gross revenue increase from proposed fees. Current aviation excise taxes, which are not user fees, will
gradually be converted to cost-based user fees. While considered governmental receipts, the following proceeds
from the fees, net of income tax offsets, would be made to offset discretionary spending:
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2001-05
FAA collections available for 724 1,399 1,499 1,522 1,522 6,667
spending.......................
Provider recertification fees.--The Administration proposes to
levy a fee on providers who are recertified for the Medicare program. By
statute, skilled nursing facilities must be surveyed every year, home
health agencies every three years, and other providers about once every
ten years. The fee would be charged every year to spread the costs of
the certification program over time. Proceeds from this fee would be
used to offset survey and certification funding.
Paper claims submission fees.--The Administration proposes to
charge providers $1.00 for every paper claim submitted for payment
because of the additional cost of processing paper rather than
electronic claims. Rural providers and very small providers who may not
be able to purchase the necessary hardware to comply with electronic
claims transmission would be exempt from the fee. Proceeds from the fee
would be used to offset Contractor funding related to claims processing.
Duplicate and unprocessable claims fees.--The Administration
proposes to charge Medicare providers $1.00 for each duplicate and
unprocessable claim submitted for payment to the Health Care Financing
Administration. Proceeds from the fee would be used to offset Contractor
funding related to claims processing.
Increase in the Medicare+Choice fees.--The Administration proposes
to increase the fee on Medicare+Choice plans by approximately $131
million in 2001. The fee was authorized at $100 million in the Balanced
Budget Act of 1997 but reduced to approximately $19 million (for 2001)
by the Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999. This increase would be
used to maintain the current level of effort in providing information to
Medicare beneficiaries regarding the Medicare+Choice program.
Nursing home criminal abuse registry fee.--The Administration
proposes to charge nursing facilities a fee to query a nursing home
criminal abuse registry. Proceeds from the fee would be used to fund the
operation and maintenance of the registry.
Department of the Interior
User fees on Outer Continental Shelf lands.--The Administration
proposes new and modifications to existing user fees on the Minerals
Management Service program that supports energy and mineral exploration,
development and production on the Outer Continental lands such as
increasing rental rates, implementing a bidding fee, and charging for
violation re-inspections. Collections would be available upon
appropriation to fund royalty and offshore minerals management
activities.
Department of Justice
Hart-Scott-Rodino pre-merger filing fees.--The Administration proposes
to restructure the Hart- Scott-
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Rodino fee, which is charged to acquiring firms in mergers. Fees are
collected by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and divided evenly
between the FTC and the Antitrust Division in the Department of Justice.
Department of Transportation
Coast Guard, navigational services fees.--The Administration proposes
to levy a fee on U.S. and foreign commercial cargo and cruise vessels
for the use of Coast Guard navigational assistance services.
Navigational assistance services include the placement and maintenance
of buoys and other short-range aids-to-navigation, radio navigation, ice
breaking, and vessel traffic services. Fishing and recreational vessels
would be exempt.
Federal Railroad Administration, rail safety inspection fees.--This
proposed fee would offset the costs of the Federal Railroad
Administration's safety inspection program. An estimated $103 million in
fees would be collected from railroad carriers based upon a calculation
of their rail usage.
Hazardous materials transportation safety fees.--Beginning late in
2001, hazardous materials transportation safety activities previously
financed by general fund appropriations to the Research and Special
Programs Administration are proposed to be financed instead by an
increase in hazardous materials registration fees. Authorizing
legislation will be proposed to increase the fees paid by shippers and
carriers of hazardous materials by an estimated $19 million in 2001 to
fund these safety activities.
Surface Transportation Board fees.--The Administration proposes to
create a fee mechanism to completely offset the expenses of the Surface
Transportation Board (STB), the successor to the Interstate Commerce
Commission (ICC). The fees would be collected from those who benefit
from the continuation of the ICC functions transferred to the STB, i.e.
railroads and shippers.
Department of the Treasury
Customs, automation modernization fee.--The Administration proposes to
establish a fee to offset the costs of modernizing automated commercial
operations of the U. S. Customs Service. Fees would finance the
development of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), which is
critical to maintain the ability of the U. S. Customs Service to process
the increasing volume of trade. Subsequent to the budget, authorization
legislation will be transmitted to allow the Secretary to establish the
fee.
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Hart-Scott-Rodino pre-merger filing fees.--The Administration proposes
to restructure the Hart- Scott-Rodino fee, which is charged to acquiring
firms in mergers. Fees are collected by the Federal FTC and divided
evenly between the FTC and the Antitrust Division in the Department of
Justice.
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
Commercial accident investigation fees.--To offset a portion of the
growing cost of commercial accident investigations by the NTSB, a new
aviation accident recovery and investigation fee is proposed. This fee,
which would be paid by commercial air, motor, ocean, rail, and pipeline
carriers based on an approximation of risk, would collect an estimated
$10 million in 2001.
b. Offsetting collections deposited in receipt accounts
Department of Justice
Immigration premium processing fee.--This is a voluntary fee paid in
addition to existing user fees charged for business visa processing that
will guarantee expedited processing and direct liaison with the
Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). The INS estimates that $17
million of the projected $80 million in annual receipts will be used for
expedited processing. The remainder will be earmarked for fraud
investigations ($8 million), reduction of backlog, and infrastructure
improvements ($55 million).
Increase inspection user fees.--Congress established the user fee
account to cover the full cost of air and sea passenger inspections. The
Administration is proposing to increase the per passenger inspection fee
from $6 to $8 and eliminate an exemption from the inspection fee for
cruise ship passengers. The increase will be used solely to defray
inspection expenses.
Department of Transportation
Pipeline safety fees.--The Administration proposes to increase
offsetting collections from the pipeline safety fund by an estimated $11
million in user fees in 2001. These fees would fund grants to States to
inspect intrastate pipelines, damage prevention grants to implement best
practices of damage prevention, and additional research, training and
risk assessment.
Environmental Protection Agency
Pesticide registration fees.--The budget proposes to reinstate
pesticide registration fees that are statutorily suspended through 2001.
These fees would be used to offset the cost of reviewing applications
for pesticide registrations, amendments to registrations, and
experimental use permits.
Pre-manufacturing notification (PMN) fees.--The Administration
proposes to eliminate the statutory cap on PMN fees and to increase fees
charged to chemical producers to recover the cost of reviewing
notifications of new chemicals prior to production.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Extend Nuclear Regulatory Commission user fees.--Under current law,
the NRC must recover approximately 100 percent of its budget (less
appropriations from the Nuclear Waste Fund) from licensing, inspection,
and annual fees charged to its applicants and licensees through 2000.
Unless the law is extended, this requirement will revert to 33 percent
of NRC's budget. Because of fairness and equity concerns related to
charging NRC licensees for expenses that do not
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provide a direct benefit to them, the Administration proposes to extend
the requirement to collect fees at approximately 98 percent of the NRC's
budget in 2001, 96 percent in 2002, 94 percent in 2003, 92 percent in
2004, and 90 percent in 2005.
2. Proposals for Mandatory User Fees to Offset Discretionary Spending
a. Offsetting collections deposited in appropriation accounts
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Recovery of supervision and regulation expenses.--The Administration
proposes to require the FDIC and the Federal Reserve to recover their
respective costs for supervision and regulation of state-chartered banks
and bank holding companies. Currently, supervision and regulation
expenses are funded from deposit insurance premiums (FDIC) and interest
earnings on Treasury securities (Federal Reserve). The FDIC's
collections would finance its state bank supervision and regulation
operations.
b. Offsetting collections deposited in receipt accounts
Corps of Engineers
Harbor services fee.--The Administration proposes to replace
collection of the ad valorem harbor maintenance tax with a cost-based
user fee, the harbor services user fee. The user fee will finance
construction, operation, and maintenance of harbor activities performed
by the Corps of Engineers, the costs of operating and maintaining the
Saint Lawrence Seaway, and the costs of administering the fee. Through
appropriations acts, the fee will raise an average of $980 million
annually through 2005, which is less than would have been raised by the
harbor maintenance tax before the Supreme Court decision that the ad
valorem tax on exports was unconstitutional. While the collections from
the harbor services fee would be mandatory, collections would be
available to offset discretionary spending.
c. Receipts
Department of Transportation
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), cost-based user fees.--The
Budget proposes to reduce the existing aviation excise taxes over time
as more efficient, cost-based user fees for air traffic services are
phased in beginning in 2001. Under this proposal, the collections each
year from the new cost-based user fees and the existing excise taxes
combined would be equal to the total budget resources requested for the
FAA in each succeeding year. In 2001, this proposal would result in the
collection of $1.0 billion in additional aviation user charges. These
charges will be deposited into a governmental receipt account and be
made available for FAA discretionary spending.
B. User Fee Proposals to Offset Mandatory Spending
a. Offsetting collections deposited in appropriation accounts
Department of Agriculture
Federal crop insurance.--The President's Budget contains a proposal to
strengthen the farm safety net that includes nearly $1 billion in crop
insurance reforms. These reforms include a crop insurance premium
discount which is expected to attract new participants to the crop
insurance program and induce current participants to purchase higher
coverage levels. Both of these expected outcomes will result in an
increase in gross premiums, a portion of which are paid by producers.
The estimated increase in producer-paid premiums as a result of the
safety net proposal is $69 million, as shown in Table 4-3.
Department of Labor
Implement alien labor certification fees.--The proposal would
establish a new fee, charged to businesses, for processing of alien
labor certification applications by the Department of Labor. The fee
proceeds would offset the costs of administering and enforcing the alien
labor program, and provide reemployment and training assistance to U.S.
workers who have been dislocated from their jobs.
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Flood map license fee.--The Administration proposes to establish a $12
license fee on the use of FEMA's flood hazard maps to support a multi-
year program to update and modernize FEMA's inventory of flood-plain
maps (100,000 maps). Accurate and easy to use flood hazard maps are
essential in determining if a property is located in a flood plain. The
maps allow lenders to meet their statutory obligation of requiring the
risk-prone homes they insure to carry flood insurance, and allow
homeowners to assess their risk of flood damage. The maps are the basis
for developing appropriate risk-based flood insurance premium charges,
and improved maps will result in a more actuarially sound insurance
program.
b. Offsetting collections deposited in receipt accounts
Department of Agriculture
Recreation and entrance fees.--The Administration proposes to
permanently extend the current pilot program which expires in 2001. The
United States Forest Service would be allowed to collect increased
recreation and entrance fees and use the receipts without further
appropriation for facility improvements and new services. The Forest
Service would also be authorized to use collections from existing fees
for similar improvements and services.
Concession, land use, right of way, and filming permits. This budget
proposes to collect fair market value from a variety of forest uses,
including special use permits for rights-of-way on Forest Service lands
(e.g., for oil and gas pipelines, phone lines, and optic cables),
recreational concessions, marinas, and film, motion pic
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ture, and other similar uses. Funds would be available for spending one
year after these collections.
Department of Health and Human Services
Medicare premiums for retirees under the age of 65 and displaced
workers.--The Administration proposes, in the context of the President's
Medicare Reform Plan, to charge premiums based on an actuarially fair
rate to people between the ages of 62 and 65 and displaced workers
between 55 and 61 who elect to participate in the Medicare buy-in
premium based program. This increase in premium collections is offset by
the reduction in premium collections due to the Medicare savings
proposals.
Medicare premiums for prescription drug benefit.--The President's
Medicare reform plan includes a prescription drug benefit which is
financed through a 50 percent premium. After paying the premium,
Medicare beneficiaries receive first-dollar coverage of prescription
drugs up to a $5,000 limit once the benefit is fully implemented.
Department of the Interior
Recreation and entrance fees.--The Administration proposes to
permanently extend the current pilot program which expires in 2001. The
National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Land
Management would be allowed to collect increased recreation and entrance
fees and use the receipts without further appropriation for facility
improvements and new services.
Filming and special use permits fees.--The Administration proposes to
authorize the National Park Service and other land management agencies,
including the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service, to increase
fees for permits to use land and facilities for the making of motion
pictures, television productions, still photos, sound tracks and other
similar purposes. Collections would be available without further
appropriations to cover related Government costs (as currently
authorized) and provide a fair return to the Government.
Hardrock mining production fees.--The Administration proposes to
charge mining companies a 5% fee on net smelter production from hard
rock mining on public domain or reserved public domain Federal lands.
Department of the Treasury
Extend Customs conveyance and passenger and merchandise processing
fees.--Under existing legislation, the Customs Conveyance/Passenger Fee
and the Merchandise Processing Fee will expire on September 30, 2003.
The Administration proposes to extend both of these fees starting on
October 1, 2003.
OTHER OFFSETTING COLLECTIONS AND RECEIPTS
Table 4-4 shows that total offsetting collections and receipts from
the public are estimated to be $214.8 billion in 2001. Of these, an
estimated $141.4 billion are offsetting collections credited to
appropriation accounts and an estimated $73.4 billion are deposited in
offsetting receipt accounts.
The user fees in Table 4-4 were discussed in the previous section.
Major offsetting collections deposited in expenditure accounts that are
not user fees are pre-credit reform loan repayments, collections from
States to supplement payments in the supplemental security income
program, and collections for the Federal Savings and Loan resolution
fund. Major offsetting receipts that are not user fees include spectrum
auction receipts, rents and royalties for oil and gas on the Outer
Continental Shelf, and interest income.
Table 4-5 includes all offsetting receipts deposited in receipt
accounts. These include payments from one part of the Government to
another, called intragovernmental transactions, and collections from the
public. These receipts are offset (deducted) from outlays in the Federal
budget. In total, offsetting receipts are estimated to be $413.2 billion
in 2001--$339.9 billion are intragovernmental transactions, and $73.4
billion are from the public, shown in the table as proprietary receipts
and offsetting governmental receipts.
As noted above, offsetting collections and receipts by agency are
also displayed in Table 20-1, ``Outlays to the Public, Net and Gross,''
which appears in Chapter 20 of this volume.
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Table 4-4. OFFSETTING COLLECTIONS AND RECEIPTS FROM THE PUBLIC
(In millions of dollars)
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Estimate
1999 -----------------------
Actual 2000 2001
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Offsetting collections credited to
expenditure accounts:
User fees:
Postal service stamps and other 61,957 63,998 67,421
postal fees....................
Defense Commissary Agency...... 4,967 4,999 4,999
Employee contributions for 4,853 5,249 5,622
employees and retired employees
health benefits funds..........
Sale of energy:
Tennessee Valley Authority... 6,818 6,590 6,718
Bonneville Power 2,539 2,309 2,345
Administration...............
All other user fees............ 17,904 17,290 19,929
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Subtotal, user fees.......... 99,038 100,435 107,034
Other collections credited to
expenditure accounts:
Pre-credit reform loan 14,919 14,977 14,787
repayments.....................
Supplemental security income 3,219 3,310 3,410
(collections from the States)..
Federal Savings and Loan 3,784 2,188 624
Insurance Corporation
resolution fund................
All other collections.......... 15,417 16,524 15,564
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Subtotal, other collections...... 37,339 36,999 34,385
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Subtotal, collections credited to 136,377 137,434 141,419
expenditure accounts...............
Offsetting receipts:
User fees:
Medicare premiums.............. 21,561 21,735 23,160
Foreign military sales program. 11,624 10,560 10,760
Immigration fees............... 1,053 1,219 1,389
Customs fees................... 1,210 1,255 1,294
All other user fees............ 2,498 2,396 3,521
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Subtotal, user fees deposited 37,946 37,165 40,124
in receipt accounts..........
Other collections deposited in
receipt accounts:
Spectrum auction receipts...... 1,505 2,076 3,559
OCS rents, bonuses, and 3,098 3,550 3,691
royalties......................
Interest income................ 9,441 10,971 13,564
All other collections deposited 18,941 20,794 12,426
in receipt accounts............
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Subtotal, other collections 32,985 37,391 33,240
deposited in receipt accounts
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Subtotal, collections deposited 70,931 74,556 73,364
in receipt accounts..............
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Total, offsetting collections and 207,308 211,990 214,783
receipts from the public...........
Total, offsetting collections and 145,331 147,976 147,346
receipts excluding off-budget......
ADDENDUM:
User fees that are offsetting 136,984 137,600 147,158
collections and receipts \1\.....
Other offsetting collections and 70,324 74,390 67,625
receipts from the public.........
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Total, offsetting collections and 207,308 211,990 214,783
receipts from the public.........
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\1\ Excludes user fees that are classified on the receipts side of the
budget. For total user fees, see Table 4.1 or Table 4.2.
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Table 4-5. OFFSETTING RECEIPTS BY TYPE
(In millions of dollars)
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Estimate
Source 1999 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Actual 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
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INTRAGOVERNMENTAL
TRANSACTIONS
On-budget receipts:
Federal intrafund
transactions:
Distributed by agency:
Interest from the 2,503 2,412 2,159 1,988 1,853 2,205 2,472
Federal Financing
Bank.................
Interest on Government 1,473 1,634 1,633 1,400 1,269 1,138 1,059
capital in
enterprises..........
Other................. 1,119 1,721 2,084 2,190 2,298 2,361 2,354
Proposed Legislation .......... .......... 65 79 82 85 96
(non-PAYGO)..........
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Total Federal 5,095 5,767 5,941 5,657 5,502 5,789 5,981
intrafunds...........
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Trust intrafund
transactions:
Distributed by agency:
Payments to railroad 3,816 3,760 3,637 3,749 3,763 3,786 3,810
retirement...........
Other................. .......... 1 1 1 1 1 1
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Total trust intrafunds 3,816 3,761 3,638 3,750 3,764 3,787 3,811
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total intrafund 8,911 9,528 9,579 9,407 9,266 9,576 9,792
transactions...........
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Interfund transactions:
Distributed by agency:
Federal fund payments
to trust funds:
Contributions to
insurance programs:
Military 15,250 15,302 15,914 16,551 17,213 17,901 18,618
retirement fund..
Supplementary 62,185 65,063 69,777 75,983 83,259 89,121 96,212
medical insurance
Proposed .......... .......... -280 -780 3,636 9,668 11,404
Legislation (non-
PAYGO)...........
Hospital insurance 7,367 7,865 7,571 7,855 8,409 8,952 9,476
Proposed .......... .......... 15,400 12,600 .......... .......... ..........
Legislation (non-
PAYGO)...........
Railroad social 98 105 88 88 89 91 94
security
equivalent fund..
Rail industry 394 265 238 243 248 255 262
pension fund.....
Civilian 21,706 21,496 21,760 22,074 22,491 22,860 23,250
supplementary
retirement
contributions....
Proposed .......... .......... 1 1 1 2 3
Legislation (non-
PAYGO)...........
Unemployment 403 399 454 474 500 543 574
insurance........
Other 438 541 441 492 488 485 482
contributions....
Proposed .......... .......... 38 37 36 36 34
Legislation (non-
PAYGO)...........
Miscellaneous 597 960 569 577 566 570 580
payments.........
Proposed .......... .......... 1,467 -1 -1 -1 -1
Legislation (non-
PAYGO)...........
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Subtotal............ 108,438 111,996 133,438 136,194 136,935 150,483 160,988
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Trust fund payments to
Federal funds:
Quinquennial .......... .......... 1,152 .......... .......... .......... ..........
adjustment for
military service
credits............
Other............... 1,082 1,051 1,076 1,103 1,130 1,160 1,188
Proposed Legislation .......... .......... 3,226 .......... .......... .......... ..........
(non-PAYGO)........
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Subtotal............ 1,082 1,051 5,454 1,103 1,130 1,160 1,188
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Total interfunds 109,520 113,047 138,892 137,297 138,065 151,643 162,176
distributed by agency
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Undistributed by agency:
Employer share,
employee retirement
(on-budget):
Civil service 9,094 8,879 9,335 9,729 9,839 10,344 10,895
retirement and
disability
insurance (CSRDI)..
Proposed Legislation .......... .......... -34 22 -17 -24 -26
(non-PAYGO)........
CSRDI from Postal 6,001 6,437 6,624 6,799 6,919 7,041 7,166
Service............
Hospital insurance 1,965 2,043 2,093 2,211 2,292 2,384 2,499
(contribution as
employer) \1\ .....
Postal employer 611 633 659 687 717 749 781
contributions to
FHI................
Military retirement 10,417 11,454 11,413 11,781 12,114 12,459 12,825
fund...............
Other Federal 121 129 135 141 144 150 157
employees
retirement.........
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Total employer 28,209 29,575 30,225 31,370 32,008 33,103 34,297
share, employee
retirement (on-
budget)............
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Interest received by 66,561 71,291 73,735 76,779 79,629 82,210 84,782
on-budget trust
funds..............
Proposed Legislation .......... 65 377 1,413 2,297 2,556 2,804
(non-PAYGO)........
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Total interfund 94,770 100,931 104,337 109,562 113,934 117,869 121,883
transactions
undistributed by
agency...............
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Total interfund 204,290 213,978 243,229 246,859 251,999 269,512 284,059
transactions...........
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Total on-budget receipts.. 213,201 223,506 252,808 256,266 261,265 279,088 293,851
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Off-budget receipts:
Interfund transactions:
Distributed by agency:
Federal fund payments
to trust funds:
Old-age, survivors, 10,824 11,663 10,985 11,494 12,048 12,813 13,725
and disability
insurance..........
Undistributed by agency:
Employer share, 7,385 7,860 8,212 8,919 9,493 10,144 10,905
employee retirement
(off-budget).......
Proposed Legislation .......... .......... -271 -321 -285 -289 -291
(non-PAYGO)........
Interest received by 52,070 59,656 68,138 77,622 87,895 98,812 110,493
off-budget trust
funds..............
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Total off-budget receipts: 70,279 79,179 87,064 97,714 109,151 121,480 134,832
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Total intragovernmental 283,480 302,685 339,872 353,980 370,416 400,568 428,683
transactions...............
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PROPRIETARY RECEIPTS FROM
THE PUBLIC
Distributed by agency:
Interest:
Interest on foreign 888 753 749 758 823 812 806
loans and deferred
foreign collections....
Interest on deposits in 935 1,152 1,104 1,052 1,052 1,052 1,052
tax and loan accounts..
Other interest 7,617 9,066 10,369 11,372 12,368 13,324 14,216
(domestic--civil) \2\ .
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Total interest.......... 9,440 10,971 12,222 13,182 14,243 15,188 16,074
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Royalties and rents....... 1,097 1,510 1,318 1,355 1,339 1,354 1,401
Proposed Legislation .......... .......... .......... 9 33 33 33
(PAYGO)................
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Sale of products:
Sale of timber and other 366 618 453 438 423 446 425
natural land products..
Proposed Legislation .......... .......... -1 -1 -1 -1 -1
(non-PAYGO)............
Proposed Legislation .......... .......... 219 262 288 286 293
(PAYGO)................
Sale of minerals and 38 27 21 21 14 20 17
mineral products.......
Sale of power and other 731 737 776 758 753 750 690
utilities..............
Other................... 65 61 59 64 64 65 66
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Total sale of products.. 1,200 1,443 1,527 1,542 1,541 1,566 1,490
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Fees and other charges for
services and special
benefits:
Medicare premiums and 21,561 21,735 23,340 25,396 27,813 30,427 33,095
other charges (trust
funds).................
Proposed Legislation .......... .......... -180 226 8,052 10,921 13,703
(PAYGO)................
Nuclear waste disposal 662 663 550 550 550 545 535
revenues...............
Veterans life insurance 204 189 179 168 157 145 133
(trust funds)..........
Other \2\ .............. 1,860 1,892 2,565 2,520 2,543 2,578 2,619
Proposed Legislation .......... .......... -3 -3 -3 -3 -3
(non-PAYGO)............
Proposed Legislation .......... .......... -157 -66 -56 -42 -41
(PAYGO)................
Legislative proposal, .......... .......... 966 963 960 996 1,015
discretionary offset...
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Total fees and other 24,287 24,479 27,260 29,754 40,016 45,567 51,056
charges................
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Sale of Government
property:
Sale of land and other 58 59 114 419 79 77 77
real property..........
Proposed Legislation .......... .......... 3 5 13 14 14
(PAYGO)................
Military assistance 11,624 10,560 10,760 10,890 10,920 11,020 11,150
program sales (trust
funds).................
Other................... 172 170 220 224 188 73 88
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Total sale of Government 11,854 10,789 11,097 11,538 11,200 11,184 11,329
property...............
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Realization upon loans and
investments:
Foreign military credit 367 .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........
sales..................
Negative subsidies and 5,914 10,606 894 5,176 5,424 5,690 6,323
downward reestimates...
Repayment of loans to 175 253 254 67 80 81 87
foreign nations........
Other................... 96 84 88 136 116 113 111
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Total realization upon 6,552 10,943 1,236 5,379 5,620 5,884 6,521
loans and investments..
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Recoveries and refunds \2\ 3,831 4,028 3,406 4,440 3,436 3,514 3,688
.........................
Proposed Legislation .......... .......... 22 -180 -16 -24 -21
(PAYGO)..................
Legislative proposal, .......... .......... 1,309 .......... .......... .......... ..........
discretionary offset.....
Miscellaneous receipt 4,724 1,426 1,436 1,437 1,442 1,449 1,452
accounts \2\ ............
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Total proprietary receipts 62,985 65,589 60,833 68,456 78,854 85,715 93,023
from the public
distributed by agency....
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Undistributed by agency:
Other interest: Interest 1 .......... 1,342 .......... .......... .......... ..........
received from Outer
Continental Shelf escrow
account..................
Rents and royalties on the
Outer Continental Shelf:
Rents and bonuses....... 791 365 809 401 277 249 236
Royalties............... 2,307 3,185 2,882 2,881 2,705 2,604 2,469
Sale of major assets...... .......... .......... .......... .......... 323 .......... ..........
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Total proprietary receipts 3,099 3,550 5,033 3,282 3,305 2,853 2,705
from the public
undistributed by agency..
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Total proprietary receipts 66,084 69,139 65,866 71,738 82,159 88,568 95,728
from the public \3\ .......
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OFFSETTING GOVERNMENTAL
RECEIPTS
Distributed by agency:
Regulatory fees........... 3,020 3,264 3,640 3,603 3,692 2,318 2,342
Proposed Legislation (non- .......... .......... 20 8 8 8 8
PAYGO)...................
Proposed Legislation .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 1,460 1,524
(PAYGO)..................
Other..................... 74 77 79 81 6 6 6
Undistributed by agency:
Spectrum auction proceeds. 1,753 2,076 3,559 5,535 2,480 770 675
Proposed Legislation (non- .......... .......... 200 200 200 200 200
PAYGO)...................
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Total offsetting 4,847 5,417 7,498 9,427 6,386 4,762 4,755
governmental receipts....
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Total offsetting receipts... 354,411 377,241 413,236 435,145 458,961 493,898 529,166
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\1\ Includes provision for covered Federal civilian employees and military personnel.
\2\ Includes both Federal funds and trust funds.
\3\ Consists of:
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Estimate
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Actual 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
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Federal funds...................... 27,796 35,402 30,725 34,052 34,218 35,065 36,661
Trust funds........................ 38,267 33,708 35,099 37,644 47,899 53,461 59,025
Off-budget......................... 21 29 42 42 42 42 42
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