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    This document provides the tasks and discussion questions for a public sector finance tutorial. The tasks include reading chapters in the public finance text, finding government spending as a percentage of GDP figures for non-OECD countries, and comparing those figures to the UK and US. The questions to consider relate to whether governments should be involved in economies, why involvement levels differ between countries, and how tax collection efficiency affects involvement decisions. Group activities include discussing whether only public goods or only market failures warrant government intervention and whether government involvement should be reduced given potential government failures.

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    This document provides the tasks and discussion questions for a public sector finance tutorial. The tasks include reading chapters in the public finance text, finding government spending as a percentage of GDP figures for non-OECD countries, and comparing those figures to the UK and US. The questions to consider relate to whether governments should be involved in economies, why involvement levels differ between countries, and how tax collection efficiency affects involvement decisions. Group activities include discussing whether only public goods or only market failures warrant government intervention and whether government involvement should be reduced given potential government failures.

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    Introduction To Public Finance

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    This document provides the tasks and discussion questions for a public sector finance tutorial. The tasks include reading chapters in the public finance text, finding government spending as a percentage of GDP figures for non-OECD countries, and comparing those figures to the UK and US. The questions to consider relate to whether governments should be involved in economies, why involvement levels differ between countries, and how tax collection efficiency affects involvement decisions. Group activities include discussing whether only public goods or only market failures warrant government intervention and whether government involvement should be reduced given potential government failures.

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    700874 Public Sector Finance, Taxation and Accounting

    Tutorial 5

    Public Sector Finance

    Tasks

    1. Please read the relevant chapters for the public finance text.

    2. See if you can find equivalent figures for the share of government in GDP for
    some non-OECD countries to those presented in slide 4 of lecture 5.

    3. Compare the share of government in GDP from your chosen countries with
    that of the UK and US. Explain why you think there are differences.

    Questions to consider

     Do you think that governments should be involved in an economy?


     Why do you think there are different levels of involvement for different
    countries?
     How does the efficiency of tax collection affect decisions as to the level of
    government involvement?

    Group Activity in the tutorial – to be discussed

    DISCUSSION QUESTIONS - group work

    1. Discuss, in your groups, whether it is only the existence of pure public


    goods that provide a rationale for government intervention.

    2. Explain whether it is only market failure that warrants government


    intervention

    3. Given the possibility of government failure, do you think that we should


    be considering means to reduce government involvement in
    economies?

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