Revenue vs. Seigniorage

Revenuenoun

The income returned by an investment.

Revenuenoun

The total income received from a given source.

Revenuenoun

All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means.

Revenuenoun

(accounting) The total sales; turnover.

Revenuenoun

(accounting) The net revenue, net sales.

Revenueverb

(intransitive) To generate revenue.

Revenueverb

(transitive) To supply with revenue.

Revenuenoun

That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income.

Revenuenoun

Hence, return; reward; as, a revenue of praise.

Revenuenoun

The annual yield of taxes, excise, customs, duties, rents, etc., which a nation, state, or municipality collects and receives into the treasury for public use.

Revenuenoun

the entire amount of income before any deductions are made

Revenuenoun

government income due to taxation

Revenuenoun

income, especially when of an organization and of a substantial nature

Revenuenoun

a state's annual income from which public expenses are met

Revenuenoun

the department of the civil service collecting state revenue

Revenue

In accounting, revenue is the income or increase in net assets that an entity has from its normal activities (in the case of a business, usually from the sale of goods and services to customers). Commercial revenue may also be referred to as sales or as turnover.

Seignioragenoun

(historical) All the revenue obtained by a feudal lord from his vassals.

Seignioragenoun

The revenue obtained directly by minting coin (difference between face value and cost of metal).

Seignioragenoun

(finance) The revenue obtained by the difference between interest earned on securities acquired in exchange for bank notes and the costs of producing and distributing those notes.

Seignioragenoun

Something claimed or taken by virtue of sovereign prerogative; specifically, a charge or toll deducted from bullion brought to a mint to be coined; the difference between the cost of a mass of bullion and the value as money of the pieces coined from it.

Seignioragenoun

A share of the receipts of a business taken in payment for the use of a right, as a copyright or a patent.

Seignioragenoun

charged by a government for coining bullion

Seigniorage

Seigniorage , also spelled seignorage or seigneurage (from the Old French seigneuriage, ), is the difference between the value of money and the cost to produce and distribute it. The term can be applied in two ways: Seigniorage derived from specie (metal coins) is a tax added to the total cost of a coin (metal content and production costs) that a customer of the mint had to pay, and which was sent to the sovereign of the political region.