Fiscal Policy in Latvia

In nowadays as an integral part of every country’s economy is fiscal policy. It was one of the main reason why the topic of course paper is called fiscal policy in Latvia – a research in government expenditures and taxation. The purpose of fiscal policy is to control aggregate demand by altering the balance between both component parts- government expenditure and taxation. Always it has been an actual problem how to find this equilibrium point, because very small changes in fiscal policy influence other economic parts - inflation, unemployment and make changes in these spheres. Any change in the government budget is felt by particular groups - a tax cut for families with children, raises the disposable income of such families or the rise in excise duty can decrease demand for petrol, etc.

The main objectives of my course paper are to:
clear out theoretical concept of fiscal policy
analyse component parts of fiscal policy according with theory
look how component parts of fiscal policy works in Latvia
clear out how tax system in Latvia has been controlled
analyze the government budget structure
make conclusions according with analysed information.

In general course paper consists of three main parts. In the first part a theoretical concept of the fiscal policy is clear out. The second part consists are divided into two main parts: in the first part some definitions of taxes are included, but the other – the structure of Latvia’ tax system is analyzed and various taxes are summarized. In the last part called government budget, first of all the main definitions are showed and further the budget, expenditures and revenues of Latvia are compared and analyzed. …