29th Annual Senior Budget Officials Meeting

The 29th Annual Meeting of Senior Budget Officials (SBO) was hosted by the Austrian Ministry of Finance and took place in Vienna on 2-3 June 2008. The meeting was chaired by Mr. Ian Watt, Secretary, Australian Department of Finance and Administration. The meeting opened with a keynote address by Mr. Wilhelm Molterer, Austria's Vice-Chancellor and Minister of Finance.

Documentation

• Annotated agenda
• Budgeting for fiscal space
  • Presentation by Allen Schick, consultant
• Public-Private Partnerships: the relevance of budgeting  
  • Presentation by Paul L. Posner, consultant
  • Comments by Balazs Romhanyi, Hungary
• Budgeting in Greece
  • Presentation by Ian Hawkesworth, OECD Secretariat
  • Comments by David Dipple, United Kingdom
• Tax expenditures in OECD countries (Final version forthcoming)
  • Presentation by Joe Minarik, consultant
• Budgeting in Australia 
  • Presentation by Jon Blondal, OECD Secretariat
  • Comments by Gerhard Steger, Austria
  • Comments by Rex Deighton-Smith, Australia
  • Comments by Chris Forbes, Canada
• Budgeting in Russia  
  • Presentation (summary) by Dirk-Jan Kraan, OECD Secretariat