pay-as-you-go

pay-as-you-go Finance Definition

A budgeting technique that requires expenses to be paid for when they are incurred. It doesnt allow for debt to be incurred. Typically state and local governments adopt this type of budgeting process.
The federal income tax collection system, in which employees have taxes taken out of each paycheck and submitted to the federal government.

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