Public Budget Principles and Process

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Course Outline

  1. Defining Public Finance
  2. Sources of Public Finance Law
  3. Conceptions of State Financial Power
  4. Public Finance and Public Law
  5. Public Finance and Other Disciplines
  6. Public and Private Finance
  7. Taxation and Its Public Purpose
  8. Tax Burden and Taxpayer Capacity
  9. Options for the Tax Base
  10. La liquidation de l’impôt
  11. Le recouvrement de l’impôt
  12. Le contentieux fiscal
  13. Classical Budgetary Principles
  14. Modern Budgetary Principles
  15. Preparing the Finance Bill
  16. Parliamentary Review and Adoption
  17. Budget Execution and Operations
  18. Control of Budget Execution

1. Defining Public Finance

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1. How do the organic and material criteria differ when identifying public finance?

2. A private organization exercises powers of command in managing funds, while a public organization carries out a financial activity as a private person would; how does the public-power-prerogatives criterion classify these activities?

3. A government collects resources through a budget and reallocates them within society outside the market circuit; what concept does this describe?

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What does the organic criterion use to identify public finance?

The legal status of the actor.

Which author is associated with the public-power-prerogatives criterion?

M. Duverger.

What is political financial intermediation?

The reallocation of resources within society outside the market circuit.

What distinguishes formal sources of law from real sources?

Formal sources are techniques through which law is expressed; real sources are origins from which legal norms draw substance.

What does Burundi Constitution Article 70(3) establish about public charges?

Equality before public charges, with exemptions allowed only by law.

What does Burundi Constitution Article 164(5) reserve to legislation?

The definition of the tax base and rates of taxes and duties.

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