Glossary

Interest payments

Government interest paid to persons.

Other current transfer payments to the rest of the world

Payments consisting of U.S. government military and nonmilitary grants-in-cash and grants-in-kind to foreign governments.

Personal current taxes

Includes taxes paid by persons on income, including realized net capital gains, and on personal property.

Personal current transfer payments

Payments consisting of transfer payments by persons to government and to the rest of the world. Payments to government include donations, fees, and fines paid to Federal, state, and local governments, formerly classified as "personal nontax payments."

Personal current transfer receipts

Consists of income payments to persons for which no current services are performed and net insurance settlements. It is the sum of government social benefits and net current transfer receipts from business.

Personal interest payments

Non-mortgage interest paid by persons.

Unilateral current transfers

Recorded when transfers of resources that affect a nation's income or product in the current period occur without a quid pro quo; the country receiving the transfer neither provides nor promises to provide anything of economic value, measurable in monetary terms, in return.