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18 Jan 21
Canada will use “whatever fiscal firepower” is needed in its fight against the effects of Covid-19, but only in the short term, prime minister Justin Trudeau has said.
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15 Jan 21
The US will undertake huge spending as the Joe Biden presidency gets underway, the president-elect has said less than a week ahead of taking office.
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14 Jan 21
Washington must step in to help New York with the largest budget deficit in its history to stop the need for “extraordinary negative measures”, the state’s governor has said.
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6 Jan 21
Ireland’s strong tax receipts led to the government running a lower than expected deficit in 2020, despite the huge spending to fight the effects of Covid-19.
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15 Dec 20
Malaysia’s parliament has narrowly passed its largest ever budget for 2021, in what is being seen as a confidence vote for the government.
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11 Dec 20
A €1.8trn financial package intended to see the European Union through the pandemic-related economic crisis has been ‘unblocked’, after a compromise was reached with Poland and Hungary, which had...
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25 Nov 20
Spain’s minority coalition government may be able to pass the country’s first full-year budget since 2016, after a Catalan separatist party announced its support.
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20 Nov 20
Participatory budgeting can help marginalised communities respond to immediate local needs better than traditional public spending, a supporter of the concept has said after a US district funded a...
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19 Nov 20
Eurozone governments should continue spending into 2021 to help the economy recover from Covid-19, the European Commission has said – while warning that recovery “depends” on the approval of the...
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6 Nov 20
The Malaysian government has presented an expansionary budget for 2021 as it attempts to steer its economy through the crisis caused by Covid-19.
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29 Oct 20
Government debt is set to rise for the next five years in South Africa, but officials hope to keep public finances sustainable by slashing the deficit, the country’s finance minister said while...
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27 Oct 20
Hikes to corporation, income and wealth taxes in Spain’s draft 2021 budget underpin the government’s “progressive” approach to public finances, the country’s president has said.
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6 Oct 20
The next Australian budget will see the government take on record amounts of debt, with treasurer Josh Frydenberg saying he wants to support businesses to keep people in jobs during and after the...
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18 Sep 20
New Jersey has adopted a so-called ‘millionaires tax’ in light of the fiscal pressures of Covid-19.
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11 Sep 20
European leaders have approved a €6.2bn increase to this year’s EU budget to fund the development of Covid-19 vaccines and address other effects of the pandemic.
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31 Jul 20
Japan has pushed its budget surplus target back because of the impact Covid-19 has had on the government’s finances.
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10 Jul 20
A €5bn ‘Brexit reserve’ has been proposed by the European Council to deal with disruption caused to other members states when the UK’s transition phase ends in 2021.
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10 Jul 20
France must look to spending cuts rather than tax increases to help cap public debt during its economic recovery from the pandemic, the country’s central bank head has said.
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3 Jul 20
Black Lives Matter protests show there is a fiscal element to social justice, and should force governments to think about how to involve marginalised people in budget-setting, a transparency...
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1 Jul 20
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted structural problems in the financial relationship between Pakistan’s federal and provincial governments, according to Muhammad Afnan Alam.
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24 Jun 20
Covid-19 has more than doubled South Africa’s projected consolidated budget deficit, the country’s finance minister said, as he delivered a special adjustment budget to deal with the virus.
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23 Jun 20
Japan will not change its target to return to a budget surplus by 2025, despite its huge fiscal efforts to counter the impact of Covid-19, its finance minister has said.
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16 Jun 20
No new taxes have been levied to deal with the public finance toll of Covid-19 in Pakistan’s new budget, in which the government outlined a huge stimulus package and a sizeable hike in defence...
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2 Jun 20
Budget transparency is more important than ever amid the Covid-19 pandemic, but most governments fail to reach a decent standard of openness, an expert and advocate for accountability has told PFF.
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2 Jun 20
Treasury management is a fast-moving and ever-changing discipline. Understanding the environment that you are operating in and developing an effective strategy is essential to identifying and...
18 Jan 21Canada will use “whatever fiscal firepower” is needed in its fight against the effects of Covid-19, but only in the short term, prime minister Justin Trudeau has said.
15 Jan 21The US will undertake huge spending as the Joe Biden presidency gets underway, the president-elect has said less than a week ahead of taking office.
14 Jan 21Washington must step in to help New York with the largest budget deficit in its history to stop the need for “extraordinary negative measures”, the state’s governor has said.
6 Jan 21Ireland’s strong tax receipts led to the government running a lower than expected deficit in 2020, despite the huge spending to fight the effects of Covid-19.
15 Dec 20Malaysia’s parliament has narrowly passed its largest ever budget for 2021, in what is being seen as a confidence vote for the government.
11 Dec 20A €1.8trn financial package intended to see the European Union through the pandemic-related economic crisis has been ‘unblocked’, after a compromise was reached with Poland and Hungary, which had...
25 Nov 20Spain’s minority coalition government may be able to pass the country’s first full-year budget since 2016, after a Catalan separatist party announced its support.
20 Nov 20Participatory budgeting can help marginalised communities respond to immediate local needs better than traditional public spending, a supporter of the concept has said after a US district funded a...
19 Nov 20Eurozone governments should continue spending into 2021 to help the economy recover from Covid-19, the European Commission has said – while warning that recovery “depends” on the approval of the...
29 Oct 20Government debt is set to rise for the next five years in South Africa, but officials hope to keep public finances sustainable by slashing the deficit, the country’s finance minister said while...
27 Oct 20Hikes to corporation, income and wealth taxes in Spain’s draft 2021 budget underpin the government’s “progressive” approach to public finances, the country’s president has said.
6 Oct 20The next Australian budget will see the government take on record amounts of debt, with treasurer Josh Frydenberg saying he wants to support businesses to keep people in jobs during and after the...
18 Sep 20New Jersey has adopted a so-called ‘millionaires tax’ in light of the fiscal pressures of Covid-19.
11 Sep 20European leaders have approved a €6.2bn increase to this year’s EU budget to fund the development of Covid-19 vaccines and address other effects of the pandemic.
31 Jul 20Japan has pushed its budget surplus target back because of the impact Covid-19 has had on the government’s finances.
10 Jul 20A €5bn ‘Brexit reserve’ has been proposed by the European Council to deal with disruption caused to other members states when the UK’s transition phase ends in 2021.
10 Jul 20France must look to spending cuts rather than tax increases to help cap public debt during its economic recovery from the pandemic, the country’s central bank head has said.
3 Jul 20Black Lives Matter protests show there is a fiscal element to social justice, and should force governments to think about how to involve marginalised people in budget-setting, a transparency...
1 Jul 20The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted structural problems in the financial relationship between Pakistan’s federal and provincial governments, according to Muhammad Afnan Alam.
24 Jun 20Covid-19 has more than doubled South Africa’s projected consolidated budget deficit, the country’s finance minister said, as he delivered a special adjustment budget to deal with the virus.
2 Jun 20Budget transparency is more important than ever amid the Covid-19 pandemic, but most governments fail to reach a decent standard of openness, an expert and advocate for accountability has told PFF.
2 Jun 20Treasury management is a fast-moving and ever-changing discipline. Understanding the environment that you are operating in and developing an effective strategy is essential to identifying and...
