Budget Regulation as a Key Area of Public Financial Activity

The paper is devoted to the consideration of issues related to the value of the legal mechanism of budgetary regulation for the management of economic and social processes in a modern innovative society. The conceptual basis of the study was formed by the regularities of distributive financial relations that are objective in nature. Acting with the help of the rules of law regulating financial relations, the federal state through its public apparatus, on the one hand, regulates these relations, and on the other hand, forms, on the basis of these relations, financial and legal regulatory mechanisms for managing society as a whole. It has been established that the finance (the financial system), public financial activity and financial law constitute interrelated and interdependent elements of a uniform system that determines the distribution of gross domestic product in the state. For public financial activities aimed at distribution and redistribution of funds within the budgetary system of the Russian Federation, the mechanism of budget regulation governed by the rules of financial law is of key importance. In the course of the study, the author highlights various features of distributive financial relations in a federal state, examines approaches to the characterization of public financial activity, focuses on aspects of the concept of "budget regulation", and analyzes the significance of this mechanism for maintaining the stability of a federal state. The author concludes that groupings of financial law norms regulating certain types of homogeneous interbudgetary public relations associated with the distribution and redistribution of funds within the budgetary system of the Russian Federation constitute separate legal forms (methods) of budgetary regulation subdivided into primary and secondary forms (methods). It is concluded that in an innovative society, budget regulation is of key importance in the process of public financing, de facto performing the role of a universal management tool that ensures a socio-economic balance in the society.

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