Payments to Government
I am conducting an analysis by parts analysis of a university. Some of the operating expenditures include payments to local government (i.e. for water and other fees). Additionally, there are payments to the state's unemployment insurance fund.
In the first instance, my understanding was that I should allocate expenditures for water/sewer into the respective private sector IMPLAN code, rather than put it into the state/local government non-ed sector. Is that correct?
In the second instance regarding payments to state unemployment insurance, I have removed these from the analysis in the past, with an understanding that those payments do not lead to a real "impact"...since they are payments being held in a trust fund for use by employees who are laid off. Is that correct?
I want to be able to understand when (if ever) it is appropriate to specify expenditures to government in analysis by parts specification of operating expenditures, or if it is better where possible to use a private sector IMPLAN code to model the expenditure's impact.
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Actually, public water and sewer is a big part of Other state and local government enterprise, so that could be used, but the private sector is probably a little cleaner. If the payment to government is for an identifiable activity, I would normally prefer to use the closest private sector as a proxy since the public sectors tend to be a mish-mash of stuff.0
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Actually, public water and sewer is a big part of Other state and local government enterprise, so that could be used, but the private sector is probably a little cleaner. If the payment to government is for an identifiable activity, I would normally prefer to use the closest private sector as a proxy since the public sectors tend to be a mish-mash of stuff.0
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Can you confirm my above thinking regarding payments to unemployment insurance?0
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Can you confirm my above thinking regarding payments to unemployment insurance?0
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That is correct. It really has no impact. Sorry about overlooking that.0
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That is correct. It really has no impact. Sorry about overlooking that.0
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