From the Congressional Glossary – Including Legislative and Budget Terms
Collections
photo credit: thewebprincessAmounts received by the federal government during the fiscal year. Collections are classified into three major categories: (1) governmental receipts (also called budget receipts or federal receipts), (2) offsetting collections, and (3) offsetting receipts.
Governmental receipts result from the exercise of the government’s sovereign powers. Offsetting collections and receipts result from businesslike transactions with the public or transactions between appropriated activities. Offsetting collections and offsetting receipts are recorded as offsets to spending. They are offsetting collections when the collections are authorized by law to be credited to expenditure accounts. Otherwise, they are deposited in receipt accounts and called offsetting receipts.
See “Federal Receipts” or “Federal Receipts and Collections” in the Analytical Perspectives of the President’s budget.
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- America’s Fiscal Future – GAO
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- Federal Receipts, FRED, St. Louis Fed
- Historical Tables, Budget of the United States Government, FRASER, St. Louis Fed
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- “Fiscal Year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act,” CRS Report R45013 (52-page PDF)
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