Fiscal transparency Fiscal transparency Fiscal transparency refers to the publication of information on how governments raise, spend, and manage public resources. More specifically, it means publication of high quality information on how governments raise taxes, borrow, spend, invest, and manage public assets and liabilities. Fiscal transparency includes public reporting on the past, present, and future state of public finances. Fiscal policies have critical impacts on economic, social and environmental outcomes in all countries at all levels of development. Fiscal transparency is sometimes used synonymously with budget transparency. However, fiscal transparency is in principle wider than budget transparency. It includes all public assets,
John Bull's Adventures in the Fiscal Wonderland John Bull's Adventures in the Fiscal Wonderland John Bull's Adventures in the Fiscal Wonderland is a novel by Charles Geake and Francis Carruthers Gould, written in 1904 and published by Methuen & Co. of London. It is a political parody of Lewis Carroll's two books, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass". The book features 48 drawings after the originals by John Tenniel which were drawn by Francis Carruthers Gould. It is critical of the economic politics of the day, which John Bull tries to make sense of. A number of notable British politicians are identified in the book.