The Reichstag may not increase items of expenditure proposed in the Budget or insert new items of expenditure without the consent of the Reichsrat.
Failing consent of the Reichsrat the provisions of Article 74 apply.
The Minister of Finance shall, with a view to discharging the responsibility of the Government, submit to the Reichstag and to the Reichsrat an account of all appropriations made out of the national revenues in the year following that in which the appropriations have been made. An act of the Realm shall provide further for the auditing of such accounts.
Article 87.
Money may be raised by loan only for extraordinary expenditure and, as a rule, only on account of expenditure for remunerative purposes.
Money may only be raised by loan or other liability assumed on behalf of the Realm with the sanction of an act of the Realm.
Article 88.
Posts, telegraphs, and telephones are exclusively the affair of the Realm. Stamps are uniform throughout the Realm.
The Government shall, with the consent of the Reichsrat, establish regulations and rates for the use of communications. With the consent of the Reichsrat it may delegate this power to the Minister of Posts.