[Analytical Perspectives]
[Economic Assumptions and Analyses]
[14. National Income and Product Accounts]
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14. NATIONAL INCOME AND PRODUCT ACCOUNTS
The National Income and Product Accounts (NIPAs) are an integrated set
of measures of aggregate U.S. economic activity that are prepared by the
Department of Commerce. Because the NIPAs include Federal transactions
and are widely used in economic analysis, it is important to show the
NIPAs' distinctive presentation of Federal transactions and contrast it
with that of the budget.
One of the main purposes of the NIPAs is to measure the Nation's total
production of goods and services, known as gross domestic product (GDP),
and the incomes generated in its production. GDP is a measure of the
Nation's final output, which excludes intermediate product to avoid
double counting. Both government consumption expenditures and government
gross investment--State and local as well as Federal--are included in
GDP as part of final output, together with personal consumption
expenditures, gross private domestic investment, and net exports of
goods and services (exports minus imports).
Other government expenditures--social benefits, grants to State and
local governments, subsidies, and interest payments--are not purchases
of final output and as such are not included in GDP; however, these
transactions are recorded in the NIPA government current receipts and
expenditures account, together with government consumption expenditures
(which includes depreciation on government gross investment).
Federal transactions are included in the NIPAs as part of the
government sector. \1\ The Federal subsector is designed to measure
certain important economic effects of Federal transactions in a way that
is consistent with the conceptual framework of the entire set of
integrated accounts. The NIPA Federal subsector is not itself a budget,
because it is not a financial plan for proposing, determining, and
controlling the fiscal activities of the Government. Also, it features
current transactions, whereas the budget includes transactions that the
NIPA current account omits from its current receipts and current
expenditure totals as ``capital transfers.'' NIPA concepts also differ
in many other ways from budget concepts, and therefore the NIPA
presentation of Federal finances is significantly different from that of
the budget.
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\1\ The other subsector of the NIPA government sector is a single set
of transactions for all U.S. State and local units of government,
treated as a consolidated entity.
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Differences Between the NIPAs and the Budget
Federal transactions in the NIPAs are measured according to NIPA
accounting concepts in order to be compatible with the purposes of the
NIPAs and other transactions recorded in the NIPAs. As a result they
differ from the budget in netting and grossing, timing, and coverage.
These differences cause current receipts and expenditures in the NIPAs
to differ from total receipts and outlays in the budget, albeit by
relatively small amounts. \2\ Differences in timing and coverage also
cause the NIPA net Federal Government saving to differ from the budget
surplus or deficit. Netting and grossing differences have equal effects
on receipts and expenditures and thus have no effect on net Government
saving. Besides these differences, the NIPAs combine transactions into
different categories from those used in the budget.
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\2\ Over the period 1994-2005, NIPA current expenditures averaged 4.5
percent higher than budget outlays, while NIPA current receipts averaged
3.5 percent higher than budget receipts.
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Netting and grossing differences arise when the budget records certain
transactions as offsets to outlays while they are recorded as current
receipts in the NIPAs (or vice versa). The budget treats all income that
comes to the Government due to its sovereign powers--mainly, but not
exclusively, taxes--as governmental receipts. The budget offsets against
outlays any income that arises from voluntary business-type transactions
with the public. The NIPAs often follow this concept as well, and income
to Government revolving accounts (such as the Government Printing
Office) is offset against their expenditures. However, the NIPAs have a
narrower definition of ``business-type transactions'' than does the
budget. Two classes of receipts, rents and royalties, and some
regulatory or inspection fees, both of which are classified as offsets
to outlays in the budget, are recorded in the NIPAs as Government
receipts (income receipts on assets and current transfer receipts,
respectively). The NIPAs include Medicare premiums as Government
receipts, while the budget classifies them as business-type transactions
(offsetting receipts). In addition, the NIPAs treat the net surplus of
Government enterprises as a component of current receipts.
In the budget, any intragovernmental income paid from one account to
another is offset against outlays rather than being recorded as a
receipt so that total outlays and receipts measure transactions with the
public. Government contributions for Federal employee social insurance
(such as Social Security) is an example: the budget offsets these
payments against outlays. In contrast, the NIPAs treat the Federal
Government like any other employer and show contributions for Federal
employee social insurance as expenditures by the employing agencies and
as governmental (rather than offsetting) receipts. The NIPAs also impute
certain transactions that are not explicit in the budget. For example,
unemployment benefits for Federal employees are financed by direct
appropriations rather than social insurance contributions. The NIPAs
impute social insurance contributions by employing agencies to finance
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these benefits--again, treating the Federal Government like any other
employer.
Timing differences for receipts occur because the NIPAs generally
record personal taxes and social insurance contributions when they are
paid and business taxes when they accrue, while the budget generally
records all receipts when they are received. Thus the NIPAs attribute
corporations' final settlement payments back to the quarter(s) in which
the profits that gave rise to the tax liability occurred. The delay
between accrual of liability and Treasury receipt of payment can result
in significant timing differences between NIPA and budget measures of
receipts for any given accounting period.
Timing differences also occur for expenditures. When the first day of
a month falls on a weekend or holiday, monthly benefit checks normally
mailed on the first day of the month may be mailed out a day or two
earlier; the budget then reflects two payments in one month and none the
next. As a result, the budget totals occasionally reflect 13 monthly
payments in one year and only 11 the next. NIPA expenditure figures
always reflect 12 benefit payments per year, giving rise to a timing
difference compared to the budget.
Coverage differences also differentiate the budget and the NIPAs.
Certain items in the budget are excluded from the NIPA Federal current
account because they are capital transfers unrelated to current economic
production. Examples include Federal investment grants to State and
local governments, investment subsidies to business, lump sum payments
to amortize the unfunded liability of the Uniformed Services Retiree
Health Care Fund, and forgiveness of debt owed by foreign governments.
Likewise, estate and gift taxes, included in budget receipts, are
excluded from NIPA current receipts as being capital transfers. They
also exclude the proceeds from the sales of nonproduced assets such as
land. Bonuses paid on Outer Continental Shelf oil leases and proceeds
from broadcast spectrum auctions are shown as offsetting receipts in the
budget and are deducted from budget outlays. In the NIPAs these
transactions are excluded from the Federal current account as an
exchange of assets with no current production involved. Also unlike the
budget, the NIPAs exclude transactions with U.S. territories.
A coverage difference arises on the expenditure side because of the
NIPA treatment of Government investment. The budget includes outlays for
Federal investments as they are paid, while the NIPA Federal current
account instead excludes current investments but includes a depreciation
charge on past investments (``consumption of general government fixed
capital'') as part of ``current expenditures.'' The inclusion of
depreciation on fixed capital (structures, equipment and software) in
current expenditures is a proxy for the services that capital renders;
i.e., for its contribution to Government output of public services.
The treatment of Government pension plan income and outgo creates a
coverage difference. Whereas the budget treats employee payments to
these pension plans as governmental receipts, and employer contributions
by agencies as offsets to outlays because they are intragovernmental,
the NIPAs treat both of these components of employee compensation as
personal income, in the same way as it treats contributions to pension
plans in the private (household) sector. Likewise, the budget records a
Government check to a retired Government employee as an outlay, but
under NIPA concepts, no Government expenditure occurs at that time; the
payment is treated (like private pension payments) as a transfer of
income within the household sector.
Financial transactions such as loan disbursements, loan repayments,
loan asset sales, and loan guarantees are excluded from the NIPAs on the
grounds that such transactions simply involve an exchange of assets
rather than current production, income, or consumption. In contrast,
under the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990, the budget records the
estimated subsidy cost of the direct loan or loan guarantee as an outlay
when the loan is disbursed. The cash flows with the public are recorded
in nonbudgetary accounts as a means of financing the budget rather than
as budgetary transactions themselves. This treatment recognizes that
part of a Federal direct loan is an exchange of assets with equal value
but part is a subsidy to the borrower. It also recognizes the subsidy
normally granted by loan guarantees. In the NIPAs, neither the subsidies
nor the loan transactions are included. However, the NIPAs, like the
budget, include all interest transactions with the public, including
interest received by and paid to the loan financing accounts; and both
the NIPAs and the budget include administrative costs of credit program
operations.
Deposit insurance outlays for resolving failed banks and thrift
institutions are similarly excluded from the NIPAs on the grounds that
there are no offsetting current income flows from these transactions. In
1991, this exclusion was the largest difference between the NIPAs and
the budget and made NIPA net Government saving a significantly smaller
negative number than the budget deficit that year. In subsequent years,
as assets acquired from failed financial institutions were sold, these
collections tended to make the budget deficit a smaller negative figure
than NIPA net Federal Government saving.
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Table 14-1. FEDERAL TRANSACTIONS IN THE NATIONAL INCOME AND PRODUCT ACCOUNTS, 1996-2007
(in billions of dollars)
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Actual Estimate
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1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
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CURRENT RECEIPTS
Current tax receipts........................................ 913.6 1,010.2 1,105.9 1,165.2 1,305.6 1,266.9 1,089.7 1,054.2 1,084.8 1,325.6 1,420.0 1,516.1
Personal current taxes.................................... 648.2 729.0 814.1 868.5 987.4 993.8 851.1 779.0 774.4 920.0 994.5 1,098.4
Taxes on production and imports........................... 73.0 77.2 80.7 82.5 87.8 86.4 86.4 89.1 92.8 102.3 106.1 111.0
Taxes on corporate income................................. 187.7 198.9 205.9 207.9 223.5 179.5 144.7 178.0 208.9 293.5 309.4 296.6
Taxes from the rest of the world.......................... 4.7 5.1 5.2 6.2 6.8 7.1 7.4 8.1 8.7 9.9 10.0 10.0
Contributions for government social insurance............... 535.3 565.4 604.4 642.2 687.8 713.8 729.6 752.5 800.3 838.9 893.8 948.8
Income receipts on assets................................... 26.6 26.7 22.3 20.9 24.3 26.4 21.3 21.4 22.0 22.3 25.9 26.5
Current transfer receipts................................... 19.1 23.8 21.0 21.8 24.9 26.5 25.5 24.9 27.6 8.3 35.1 35.8
Current surplus of government enterprises................... -1.9 0.2 -* 0.3 -1.3 -6.5 -1.1 2.1 0.2 -4.8 -4.9 -6.6
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Total current receipts................................ 1,492.7 1,626.4 1,753.5 1,850.3 2,041.2 2,027.1 1,865.0 1,855.1 1,934.9 2,190.4 2,369.9 2,520.6
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CURRENT EXPENDITURES
Consumption expenditures.................................... 436.8 454.6 452.9 469.5 496.0 519.7 575.5 646.6 707.5 772.6 831.1 837.0
Defense................................................... 295.5 304.4 301.3 307.2 321.2 335.7 368.4 424.2 471.2 511.4 549.6 549.9
Nondefense................................................ 141.3 150.2 151.6 162.3 174.8 184.0 207.1 222.5 236.3 261.1 281.5 287.1
Current transfer payments................................... 873.0 908.2 940.3 976.4 1,023.2 1,108.0 1,216.6 1,308.2 1,378.4 1,461.8 1,580.7 1,678.3
Government social benefits................................ 670.2 700.0 716.4 733.0 762.7 823.6 900.9 955.1 1,006.4 1,072.7 1,176.1 1,274.2
Grants-in-aid to State and local governments.............. 188.6 194.1 209.9 227.7 244.1 268.2 296.7 329.9 347.5 360.9 371.8 377.8
Other transfers to the rest of the world.................. 14.1 14.2 14.0 15.7 16.4 16.3 19.0 23.2 24.5 28.3 32.9 26.4
Interest payments........................................... 295.8 299.4 299.7 285.9 283.3 267.9 234.9 215.9 219.3 247.0 284.2 316.4
Subsidies................................................... 33.3 31.3 33.6 36.1 49.6 53.7 37.9 45.2 43.2 44.9 55.1 59.2
Wage disbursements less accruals............................ ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... .........
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Total current expenditures............................ 1,638.9 1,693.5 1,726.5 1,767.9 1,852.0 1,949.3 2,064.9 2,216.0 2,348.5 2,526.2 2,751.2 2,891.0
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Net Federal Government saving......................... -146.1 -67.1 27.0 82.4 189.2 77.8 -199.9 -361.0 -413.6 -335.8 -381.3 -370.4
ADDENDUM: TOTAL RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
Current receipts............................................ 1,492.7 1,626.4 1,753.5 1,850.3 2,041.2 2,027.1 1,865.0 1,855.1 1,934.9 2,190.4 2,369.9 2,520.6
Capital transfer receipts................................... 17.1 19.7 23.9 27.6 28.8 28.2 26.4 21.7 24.7 24.6 27.4 23.5
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Total receipts........................................ 1,509.8 1,646.1 1,777.4 1,877.9 2,070.0 2,055.3 1,891.3 1,876.8 1,959.6 2,215.0 2,397.3 2,544.1
Current expenditures........................................ 1,638.9 1,693.5 1,726.5 1,767.8 1,852.0 1,949.3 2,064.9 2,216.0 2,348.5 2,526.2 2,751.2 2,891.0
Net investment:
Gross government investment:
Defense................................................. 52.6 44.5 45.4 46.5 48.5 49.9 54.5 58.8 66.0 70.4 74.6 75.1
Nondefense.............................................. 28.5 28.5 29.7 31.9 32.2 30.3 32.6 33.1 32.7 33.8 37.1 38.2
Less: Consumption of fixed capital:
Defense................................................. 61.4 60.6 59.8 59.7 60.2 60.3 60.4 61.4 63.4 67.2 70.0 72.8
Nondefense.............................................. 20.6 21.8 22.9 24.5 26.5 27.7 28.2 28.6 29.1 29.8 32.5 36.1
Capital transfer payments................................... 27.7 28.9 28.2 31.3 35.1 39.8 44.3 61.8 62.4 63.2 69.8 75.4
Net purchases of nonproduced assets......................... -0.1 -11.0 -5.3 -1.7 -0.3 -0.9 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 -19.5
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Total expenditures.................................... 1,665.5 1,702.2 1,741.8 1,791.7 1,880.8 1,980.3 2,108.0 2,279.8 2,417.2 2,708.2 2,951.3 3,069.0
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Net lending or net borrowing (-)...................... -155.7 -56.0 35.7 86.1 189.2 74.9 -216.7 -403.0 -457.6 -493.2 -554.1 -524.8
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* $50 million or less.
Federal Sector Current Receipts
Table 14-1 shows Federal current receipts in the five major categories
and four of the subcategories used in the NIPAs, which are similar to
the budget categories but with significant differences.
Current tax receipts is the largest category of current receipts, and
its personal current taxes subcategory--composed primarily of the
individual income tax--is the largest single subcategory. The NIPAs'
taxes on corporate income subcategory differs in classification from the
corresponding budget category primarily because the NIPAs include the
deposit of earnings of the Federal Reserve System as corporate income
taxes, while the budget treats these collections as miscellaneous
receipts. (The timing difference between the NIPAs and the budget is
especially large for corporate receipts.) The taxes on production and
imports subcategory is composed of excise taxes and customs duties.
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Contributions for Government social insurance is the second largest
category of current receipts. It differs from the corresponding budget
category primarily because: (1) the NIPAs include Federal employer
contributions for social insurance as a governmental receipt, while the
budget offsets these contributions against outlays as undistributed
offsetting receipts; (2) the NIPAs include premiums for Parts B and D of
Medicare as governmental receipts, while the budget nets them against
outlays; (3) the NIPAs treat Government employee contributions to their
pension plans as a transfer of personal income within the household
sector (as if the pension system were private), while the budget
includes them in governmental receipts; and (4) the NIPAs impute
employer contributions for Federal employees' unemployment insurance and
workers' compensation.
The income receipts on assets category consists mainly of interest
payments received on Government direct loans (such as student loans) and
rents and royalties on Outer Continental Shelf oil leases. The current
transfer receipts category consists primarily of deposit insurance
premiums, fees, fines and other receipts from both individuals and
businesses, less insurance settlements from the National Flood Insurance
Program--virtually all of which are netted against outlays in the
budget. The current surplus (or deficit) of Government enterprises
category was formerly netted against subsidies on the expenditure side
of the accounts. This is the profit or loss of ``Government
enterprises,'' such as the Postal Service, which are business-type
operations of Government that usually appear in the budget as public
enterprise revolving funds. Depreciation (consumption of enterprise
fixed capital) is netted in calculating the current surplus of
Government enterprises.
Federal Sector Current Expenditures
Table 14-1 shows current expenditures in five major NIPA categories
and five subcategories, which are also very different from the budget
categories.
Government consumption expenditures are the goods and services
purchased by the Federal Government in the current account, including
compensation of employees and depreciation. Gross investment (shown
among the addendum items in Table 14-1) is thus excluded from current
expenditures in computing net Government saving on a NIPA basis, whereas
depreciation--charges on federally owned fixed capital--(``consumption
of general government fixed capital'') is included. The NIPAs treat
State and local investment and capital consumption in the same way--
regardless of the extent to which it is financed with Federal aid
(capital transfer payments) or from State and local own-source receipts.
Although gross investment is not included in Government current
expenditures, both Government gross investment and current consumption
expenditures (including depreciation) are included in total GDP, which
makes the treatment of the government sector in the NIPAs similar to
that of the private sector. Investment includes structures, equipment,
and computer software.
Current transfer payments is the largest expenditure category.
Transfer payments for Government social benefits consist mainly of
income security and health programs, such as Social Security and
Medicare paid to U.S. residents--and to retirees living outside the
United States-Payment of pension benefits to former Government employees
is not included, as explained previously. Grants-in-aid to State and
local governments help finance a range of programs, including income
security, Medicaid, and education (but capital transfer payments for
construction of highways, airports, waste-water treatment plants, and
mass transit are excluded). ``Current transfer payments to the rest of
the world (net)'' consists mainly of grants to foreign governments.
Interest payments is the interest paid by the Government on its debt
(excluding debt held by trust funds, other than Federal employee pension
plans; and other Government accounts). Where the budget nets interest
received on loans against outlays, the NIPAs now treat it as current
receipts.
Subsidies consist of subsidy payments for resident businesses
(excluding subsidies for investment). NIPA subsidies do not include the
imputed credit subsidies estimated as budget outlays under credit
reform. Rather, as explained previously loans and guarantees are
categorized as financial transactions and are excluded from the NIPAs
except for associated interest and fees.
Wage disbursements less accruals is an adjustment that is necessary to
the extent that the wages paid in a period differ from the amount earned
in the period.
Differences in the Estimates
Table 14-2. RELATIONSHIP OF THE BUDGET TO THE FEDERAL SECTOR, NIPA's
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Actual Estimate
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1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
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Budget receipts............................................. 1,453.2 1,579.4 1,722.0 1,827.6 2,025.5 1,991.4 1,853.4 1,782.5 1,880.3 2,153.9 2,285.5 2,415.9
Contributions to government employee retirement plans..... -4.5 -4.4 -4.3 -4.5 -4.8 -4.7 -4.6 -4.6 -4.6 -4.5 -4.5 -4.3
Capital transfers received................................ -17.1 -19.7 -23.9 -27.6 -28.8 -28.2 -26.3 -21.7 -24.7 -24.6 -27.4 -23.5
Other coverage differences................................ -3.6 -3.9 -5.8 -7.0 -8.0 -7.9 -8.9 -9.1 -10.0 -11.3 -11.9 -12.7
Netting and grossing...................................... 62.8 69.5 64.5 65.7 70.6 69.9 77.0 84.9 89.0 71.0 112.9 120.8
Timing differences........................................ 1.8 5.5 1.1 -3.9 -13.2 6.7 -25.6 23.1 4.9 5.9 15.3 24.6
NIPA current receipts................................... 1,492.7 1,626.4 1,753.5 1,850.3 2,041.2 2,027.1 1,865.0 1,855.1 1,934.9 2,190.4 2,369.9 2,520.6
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EXPENDITURES
Budget outlays.............................................. 1,560.6 1,601.3 1,652.7 1,702.0 1,789.2 1,863.2 2,011.2 2,160.1 2,293.0 2,472.2 2,708.7 2,770.1
Government employee retirement plan transactions.......... 26.8 31.6 31.3 32.1 31.7 31.5 33.7 32.5 32.8 39.8 40.4 40.7
Deposit insurance and other financial transactions........ 2.3 -6.4 -7.1 -6.1 -9.0 -6.2 -6.7 1.7 1.1 4.8 -16.2 -9.3
Capital transfer payments................................. -27.7 -28.9 -28.2 -31.3 -35.1 -39.8 -44.1 -45.5 -46.3 -47.4 -50.6 -55.6
Net purchases of nonproduced assets....................... 0.1 11.0 5.3 1.7 0.2 0.9 -0.2 -.0 -0.1 -0.1 -0.2 19.5
Net investment............................................ 0.9 9.3 7.6 5.7 6.0 7.9 1.4 -1.9 -6.2 -7.2 -9.2 -4.4
Other coverage differences................................ 3.1 11.4 1.0 2.7 4.0 7.9 -0.6 -13.2 -18.5 -26.5 -18.0 -3.7
Netting and grossing differences.......................... 62.8 69.5 64.5 65.7 70.6 69.9 77.0 84.9 89.0 71.0 112.9 120.8
Timing differences........................................ 9.9 -5.4 -0.7 -4.7 -5.6 14.3 -6.7 -2.6 3.8 19.6 -16.6 13.0
NIPA current expenditures............................... 1,638.9 1,693.5 1,726.5 1,767.8 1,852.0 1,949.3 2,064.9 2,216.0 2,348.5 2,526.2 2,751.2 2,891.0
ADDENDUM
Budget surplus or deficit (-)............................. -107.4 -21.9 69.3 125.6 236.2 128.2 -157.8 -377.6 -412.7 -318.3 -423.2 -354.2
NIPA net Federal Government saving........................ -146.1 -67.1 27.0 82.4 189.2 77.8 -199.9 -361.0 -413.6 -335.8 -381.3 -370.4
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* $50 million or less.
Since the introduction of the unified budget in January 1968, NIPA
current receipts have been greater than budget receipts in most years.
This is due principally to grossing differences and the fact that estate
and gift taxes, which the NIPAs exclude as capital transfers, roughly
matched Medicare premiums, which the NIPAs include as a governmental
receipt but the budget treats as an offsetting receipt. (In the budget,
offsetting receipts are netted against the outlay total and not included
in the governmental receipts total.) Since 1986, NIPA current
expenditures have usually been higher than budget outlays (from which
the Medicare premiums and employer retirement contributions are netted
out as offsetting receipts), despite the omission from NIPA expenditures
of capital transfer grants and pension benefit payments to former
Government employees.
Two components of budget outlays, however, are sometimes sufficiently
large in combination to exceed the netting and grossing adjustments.
These are financial transactions and net investment (the difference
between gross investment and depreciation). Large outlays associated
with resolving the failed savings and loan associations and banks in
1990 and 1991 caused those year's budget outlays to exceed NIPA current
expenditures. With the change in budgetary treatment of direct loans in
1992 under credit reform, one type
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of financial transaction--direct loans to the public--has been recorded
in the budget in a way that is closer to the NIPA treatment.
Disbursement and repayment of loans made since that time are recorded
outside the budget as in the Federal sector of the NIPAs, although,
unlike the NIPAs, credit subsidies are recorded as budget outlays.
During the period 1975-1992, the budget deficit was a larger negative
number than net Federal Government saving as measured in the NIPAs every
year. The largest difference, $78.8 billion, occurred in 1991 as a
result of resolving failed financial institutions as discussed above;
the budget deficit was then -$269.2 billion, while the NIPA net
Government saving was -$190.5 billion. In 1993-2002, the NIPA net
Federal Government saving was a larger negative number than the budget
deficit or lower positive number than the budget surplus each year. For
2003-2004, and in the estimate for 2006, though not for 2005 or 2007,
the NIPA net Federal Government saving is a smaller negative number than
the budget deficit.
Table 14-1 displays Federal transactions using NIPA concepts with
actual data for 1996-2005 and estimates for 2006 and 2007 consistent
with the Administration's budget proposals. Table 14-2 summarizes the
reasons for differences between the data. Table 14-3 displays quarterly
data beginning with the last quarter of 2004 based on NIPA concepts.
Annual NIPA data for 1948-2007 are published in Section 14 of a separate
budget volume, Historical Tables, Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal
Year 2007.
Detailed estimates of NIPA current receipts and expenditures
consistent with the budget will be published in a forthcoming issue of
the Department of Commerce publication, Survey of Current Business and
on the Bureau of Economic Analysis website at http://www.bea.doc.gov/
bea/pubs.htm.
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Table 14-3. FEDERAL RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES IN THE NIPA's, QUARTERLY, 2005-2007
(in billions of dollars; seasonally adjusted at annual rates)
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Actual Estimate
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Oct.-Dec. Jan.-Mar. Apr.-June July- Oct.-Dec. Jan.-Mar. Apr.-June July- Oct.-Dec. Jan.-Mar. Apr.-June July-
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2004 2005 2005 2005 2005 2006 2006 2006 2006 2007 2007 2007
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CURRENT RECEIPTS
Current tax receipts........................................ 1,181.3 1,305.1 1,331.8 1,338.7 1,375.3 1,384.4 1,409.9 1,435.7 1,474.3 1,498.7 1,522.3
Personal current taxes.................................... 839.7 908.3 924.3 940.5 996.6 1,009.2 1,038.3 1,065.5 1,100.3 1,123.3 1,144.3
Taxes on production and imports........................... 95.1 95.4 98.3 97.5 97.4 99.5 100.7 102.8 103.7 104.2 104.6
Taxes on corporate income................................. 235.3 291.7 300.8 290.7 271.3 265.7 260.8 257.5 260.3 261.1 263.3
Taxes from the rest of the world.......................... 11.2 9.7 8.5 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0
Contributions for government social insurance............... 823.4 841.1 845.1 852.6 888.2 902.2 915.9 928.4 947.9 956.7 965.8
Income receipts on assets................................... 22.2 23.0 24.3 22.8 24.8 25.7 26.5 26.3 25.8 25.2 25.8
Current transfer receipts................................... 30.0 30.4 30.2 -61.4 33.2 33.7 34.0 33.9 33.9 33.9 33.7
Current surplus of government enterprises................... -2.3 -2.9 -3.6 -4.3 -2.9 -4.1 -5.7 -5.7 -6.3 -6.4 -6.8
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Total current receipts................................ 2,054.6 2,196.6 2,227.9 2,148.5 2,318.6 2,342.0 2,380.7 2,418.6 2,475.6 2,508.1 2,540.9
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CURRENT EXPENDITURES
Consumption expenditures.................................... 735.1 759.6 762.8 782.9 816.2 826.9 825.5 820.6 823.4 822.9 822.8
Defense................................................... 490.1 508.9 512.3 528.6 549.8 558.1 555.3 549.4 551.4 550.0 549.0
Nondefense................................................ 245.1 250.7 250.5 254.3 266.4 268.9 270.1 271.2 272.0 272.9 273.8
Current transfer payments................................... 1,419.0 1,458.7 1,459.9 1,474.4 1,576.9 1,584.8 1,591.2 1,625.9 1,649.5 1,673.9 1,699.9
Government social benefits................................ 1,034.9 1,064.2 1,077.9 1,094.4 1,188.9 1,191.2 1,194.8 1,225.4 1,262.8 1,282.5 1,302.0
Grants-in-aid to State and local governments.............. 358.7 356.1 358.6 354.1 356.2 363.9 368.1 365.2 364.7 368.1 372.9
Other transfers to the rest of the world.................. 25.3 38.3 23.5 25.9 31.8 29.7 28.2 35.3 22.0 23.3 25.0
Interest payments........................................... 226.1 226.6 250.8 250.8 277.8 286.9 295.5 303.0 310.8 318.3 325.5
Subsidies................................................... 46.1 50.1 51.6 55.6 59.4 61.4 62.9 63.0 63.8 64.6 65.4
Wage disbursements less accruals............................ ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... .........
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Total current expenditures............................ 2,426.2 2,494.9 2,525.2 2,563.7 2,730.3 2,760.1 2,775.0 2,812.5 2,847.5 2,879.7 2,913.6
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Net Federal Government saving......................... -371.6 -298.3 -297.3 -415.2 -411.7 -418.0 -394.3 -393.9 -371.9 -371.6 -372.8
ADDENDUM: TOTAL RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
Current receipts............................................ 2,054.6 2,196.6 2,227.9 2,148.5 2,318.6 2,342.0 2,380.7 2,418.6 2,475.6 2,508.1 2,540.9
Capital transfer receipts................................... 23.9 24.9 24.4 25.1 26.5 26.6 26.1 25.1 22.8 21.4 19.7
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Total receipts........................................ 2,078.5 2,221.5 2,252.3 2,173.6 2,345.0 2,368.6 2,406.8 2,443.7 2,498.4 2,529.5 2,560.6
Current expenditures........................................ 2,426.2 2,494.9 2,525.2 2,563.7 2,730.3 2,760.1 2,775.0 2,812.5 2,847.5 2,879.7 2,913.6
Net investment:
Gross government investment:
Defense................................................. 71.9 66.4 70.2 73.1 72.6 75.5 74.9 75.1 74.9 75.6 74.7
Nondefense.............................................. 33.8 34.3 36.8 36.3 38.4 39.0 39.5 39.8 39.8 39.7 39.4
Less: Consumption of fixed capital:
Defense................................................. 66.2 66.8 67.5 68.2 69.6 70.3 71.0 71.7 72.4 73.2 73.9
Nondefense.............................................. 29.7 30.0 30.3 30.9 32.0 32.8 34.0 34.8 35.6 36.4 37.6
Capital transfer payments................................... 61.8 80.0 67.1 64.2 69.0 69.5 71.0 72.8 74.4 75.3 77.4
Net purchases of nonproduced assets......................... -1.0 0.3 -0.6 -1.6 0.1 0.2 0.2 -19.5 -19.5 -19.5 -19.5
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Total expenditures.................................... 2,496.8 2,578.9 2,601.0 2,636.5 2,808.8 2,841.1 2,855.5 2,874.2 2,909.2 2,941.3 2,974.2
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Net lending or net borrowing (-)...................... -418.2 -357.4 -348.7 -462.9 -463.8 -472.5 -448.8 -430.5 -410.8 -411.8 -413.6
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Department of Commerce advance estimates for the Oct.-Dec. 2005 quarter, released January 27, 2006, were not available in time for inclusion in this table.
* $50 million or less.