Key highlights

“2021”/22 Budget Treasury Forecast Variance
Crown Core Expenses $110.7b $128.0b +$17.3b (+15.6%)
Crown Core Tax Revenue $91.5b $102.6b +$11.0b (+12.0%)

Full data workings
This week, we’re going to share the full data workings for interested media, politicians, and citizens. 
theFacts – Core Crown Expense and Tax Revenue Analysis, 17 May 2022

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Other notes:

  • We’ve focused today’s fact on Core Crown Tax Revenue and Core Crown Expenses.
    • This is the most common comparison used to show Government revenue and expenditure
    • It is also the expenditure figure used in annual budgets
    • We will research Other Crown Revenue in the future. This will require a series of questions to Treasury to better understand the complexity behind the calculations, e.g. SOEs.
  • We’ve shown dollar values to help Kiwis better understand Crown/Government budget sizes, and to show the budget overuns. In future facts, we may also measure these numbers as a % of GDP.
  • Additional notes from Treasury can be found in the Excel file above, and the data source pages below.
  • All numbers are provisional and subject to revision.

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SOURCES:

Annual Financial Statements https://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/year-end/financial-statements-2021 > Financial Statements of the Government of New Zealand for the Year Ended 30 June 2021 – Charts and Data

Interim Financial Statements (including forecasts) https://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/search?f[0]=field_tsy_publication_category%3A2702 > https://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/month-end/interim-financial-statements-government-new-zealand-nine-months-ended-31-march-2022

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