Trust Fund Receipt Account in the United States

Trust Fund Receipt Account in the Federal Budget Process

Meaning of Trust Fund Receipt Account in the congressional and executive budget processes (GAO source): A receipt account credited with collections classified as trust fund collections. These collections are recorded as either governmental receipts or offsetting receipts.

Guide to the U.S. Federal Trust Fund Accounts (Budget Process)

• Trust Fund Accounts
• Trust Fund Expenditure Account
• Trust Fund Receipt Account
• Trust Revolving Fund Account

Resources

See Also

• Federal Appropriations
• Entries about the United States Budget Process in the Encyclopedia (including Trust Fund Receipt Account)
• 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)