Role of the State Budget in the Distribution of the Social Product and National Income

The CPSU Program points out that the state budget will continue to play an important role in the distribution of the social product and national income throughout the period of the full-scale building of communism. The development of the budget contains a number of important peculiarities engendered by the qualitative changes taking place in the economy and, primarily, in the sphere of material production. Rapid economic growth is permitting a steady increase in socialist accumulation and in the volume of the state budget, and changes in the latter's structure in the direction of more complete satisfaction of the financial needs of the progressing branches of the economy, expansion of the public consumption funds, and rapid development of the union republics. All this enhances the leading role of the state budget in the planned distribution and redistribution of the social product and national income, and in ensuring the optimum branch structure for the economy.