CONCEPT AND DEFINITION OF INCOME IN THE NATIONAL ACCOUNTS

Utz‐Peter Reich

Review of Income and Wealth, 1991, vol. 37, issue 3, 235-247

Abstract: It is a truism that the national accounts have engendered their own concept of income which is different from other contexts such as business accounting, taxation or welfare analysis. Less known are the principles on which this income concept is based. This article is an attempt to specify such principles, investigating in particular the role of the transaction principle, and to derive an income concept therefrom. The crucial point of the argument is whether or not it is appropriate within the system of the national accounts to assign an income to sectors other than the households. The theory is applied to some practical questions which have been discussed in the process of the revision of the SNA.

Date: 1991
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