EVOLUTION OF PUBLIC FINANCE SECTOR’S INCOME AND EXPENDITURE BETWEEN 2004 AND 2011

The aim of the article is to present the evolution of the structure of the public finance sector’s income and expenditure between 2004 and 2011 and an attempt to find and evaluate the determinants of those changes. The author verifies the hypothesis of a systematic increase in significance of the state budget and appropriated funds as instruments of the redistribution of wealth occurring together with the processes of centralisation of income in government sub-sector and decentralisation of expenditures (due to increased transfers to the local government sub-sector). In order to verify this hypothesis data concerning income and expenditures of the public finance sector between 2004 and 2011 has been standardised, aggregated and analysed in the most crucial cross-sections. Issues raised in the article are extremely important in the context of remedial actions and an ongoing discussion in economic circles on the role of the expenditure rules in public finance sector. That being so, the report brings high value to the financial sciences and economics.