Federal Finance Administration (FFA) · annual

Government finances

The headline read on Swiss public finances — the one genuine concept gap in the catalog. The Federal Finance Administration consolidates the whole of general government (Confederation, the 26 cantons, the communes, and the social-security funds) into a single coherent set of fiscal aggregates, published on opendata.swiss as "Main aggregates and forecasts with FS- and GFS-Model". It is the only catalog dataset sourced from the FFA, and the only one that carries both the Swiss administrative FS model (financial statistics) and the internationally comparable GFS model (Government Finance Statistics, the Maastricht / SNA basis) side by side. It delivers the textbook public-finance headline set — receipts, expenditure, the budget balance, gross and net debt, and the GDP ratios (tax-to-GDP / fiscal ratio, expenditure ratio, gross-debt ratio incl. the Maastricht debt ratio) — broken down by government level, so the user can see e.g. the Confederation's deficit against the cantons' surplus, or the general-government Maastricht debt ratio over three decades. It also extends past the latest closed financial statement into the FFA's official budget / financial-plan and forecast years (flagged in the estimate dimension), which is unusual for the catalog: most series stop at the last actual.

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