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Explain with an example the difficulty experienced while calculating national income with expenditure method.

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Difficulty in calculating national income through expenditure:

The official data of people’s expenditure cannot be obtained correctly and therefore it becomes difficult to calculate national income by this method.

Example:

  • Suppose a business person named Arav gives ₹ 30,000 as salary to Milap, who works as his accountant and considers ₹ 30,000 as the expenditure incurred.
  • Now Milap gives ₹ 3000 to Khushbu who is his domestic helper. This becomes Milap’s expenditure. Now, the question that arises is ‘What is the actual expenditure? ₹ 30,000 or ₹ 30,000 + ₹ 3000 = ₹ 33,000?
  • So, even in this method the problem of double counting arises in calculating national income.


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