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- Title
Unpaid commitments and loss of budgetary credibility.
- Authors
de Aquino, André Carlos Busanelli; de Azevedo, Ricardo Rocha
- Abstract
This article discusses the use of unpaid commitments and its impacts on the credibility and transparency of public finances. Based on a typification of the four types of existing carry-over in current Brazilian regulation, the article shows evidence of the emergence of a "parallel budget" in the three levels of government with regulation and external control issues. The development of the balances and enrollment of the unpaid commitments was proxied by the sum of these accounts in the Federal Government balance sheet, as well as in 26 States and the Federal District, and for 4,100 cities. Additionally, the interpretation given by the Courts of Auditors for unpaid commitments usage by governments without financial ballast was observed as well as the level of transparency given by those governments with the larger amounts of unpaid commitments. The results indicate that, besides the growing debt, the weak regulation of unverified unpaid commitments is seriously reducing the credibility and transparency of the budget at all levels of government.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; BUDGET policy; TRUTHFULNESS &; falsehood; PUBLIC finance; BUDGET laws; TRANSPARENCY in government
- Publication
RAP: Revista Brasileira de Administração Pública, 2017, Vol 51, Issue 4, p580
- ISSN
0034-7612
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/0034-7612163584