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Balanced Budget

Balanced Budget is an annual budget (such as for a government) in which revenues perfectly offset expenditures, so that there is neither a deficit nor a surplus.


Balanced budget situation in which total revenues raised by taxes and fees equal total proposed government spending for the year.

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