The Need for Budgetary Reform

Melvyn Westlake

Fiscal Studies, 1979, vol. 1, issue 1, 51-59

Abstract: There is now a compelling case for reforming British budgetary practice. Indeed, it may be said that Britain does not have a budget at all, in the sense that the term would be understood by families, or companies or some foreign governments. In ordinary usage, a budget constitutes the planning of expenditure in direct relation to the expected level of income and the capacity to match any deficit by borrowing

Date: 1979
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