Proprietary Receipts in the United States

Proprietary Receipts from the Public in the Federal Budget Process

Meaning of Proprietary Receipts in the congressional and executive budget processes (GAO source): Collections from outside the government that are deposited in receipt accounts that arise as a result of the government’s business-type or market-oriented activities. Among these are interest received, proceeds from the sale of property and products, charges for nonregulatory services, and rents and royalties. Such collections may be credited to general fund, special fund, or trust fund receipt accounts and are offset against budget authority and outlays. In most cases, such offsets are by agency and by subfunction, but some proprietary receipts are deducted from total budget authority and outlays for the government as a whole. An example of the latter is rents and royalties on the Outer Continental Shelf. (See Subfunction 953 in app. IV. See also Earmarking.)

Guide to U.S. Federal Offsetting Receipts (Budget Process)

• Offsetting Receipts
• Proprietary Receipts
• Intragovernmental Transfers
• Offsetting Governmental Receipts

Resources

See Also

• Federal Appropriations
• Entries about the United States Budget Process in the Encyclopedia (including Proprietary Receipts)
• Public Debt

Further Reading

• Legislatures and the budget process: the myth of fiscal control

  (J Wehner, 2010)

• Reconcilable Differences?: Congress, the Budget Process, and the Deficit (JB Gilmour, 1990)
• Fiscal institutions and fiscal performance

  (JM Poterba, J von Hagen, 2008)