The phrase "a fiscal surplus" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a situation where a government's revenue exceeds its expenditures, resulting in extra funds.
Example: "The government reported a fiscal surplus for the last quarter, allowing for increased investment in public services."
Alternatives: "budget surplus" or "financial surplus".
The swap will be a success only if the economy returns swiftly to growth of at least 5% a year, and the government generates a fiscal surplus, thus reassuring investors that Argentina can service its postponed and now augmented debts in future.There is no easy route to this.
"Now we have a fiscal surplus — and that's since the first year of our government.
Far from having a deficit, Ireland has a fiscal surplus of 4.6% of GDP.
A fiscal surplus of $236 billion has been turned into a nearly equal and opposite deficit, with worse to come.
They say they would keep a fiscal surplus, before interest payments, sufficient to stabilise the public debt.
It has maintained a fiscal surplus, but this is mainly due to buoyant tax receipts rather than lower spending.
By the late 1990s, Brazilian macroeconomic policy was officially based on three principles: a primary fiscal surplus, a freely floating exchange rate and an inflation target.
The government's current three-pillar model of macro-economic planning and management, involving a primary fiscal surplus, a freely floating exchange rate and inflation targeting, needs a reorientation and reprioritization.
Using a typical estimate of the response of the current account to fiscal changes he showed that it would have taken a Spanish fiscal surplus of 20% of GDP to maintain a reasonable current-account deficit.
One option is a one-time rebate in the payroll tax that finances Social Security.Given that America is running a sizeable fiscal surplus, there is plenty of room for a big fiscal stimulus as long as it is a temporary one.
