S.13 General government

General government produces public services, attends to general income distribution and welfare and guarantees the operation of the social and economic system. General government activities are principally financed by taxes.

Sector S.13 includes the following institutional units, for example:
• Units engaged in and financing such activities whose purpose is to produce principally non-market goods and services intended for the benefit of society;
• Corporations or quasi-corporations that are controlled by general government and whose output is mainly non-market;
• Units providing statutory pension insurance;
• Non-profit institutions serving general government, such as employer organisations representing general government.

The sector general government does not include such corporations and quasi-corporations controlled by general government that are market producers. They belong to sector public non-financial corporations or public financial corporations. (See Chapter 3 Institutional units, and Chapter 4 Determination bases of the sector category.) [0]

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