Transfers in public finance represent a mechanism by which allocates part of the national income, which expresses the active role of the state in modern economic systems. If we consider the goals to be achieved by transfers in public finance, there are the following types of transfers: transfers with economic objectives, transfers with a social purpose and transfers which mean repayment of interest on public debt. Transfers with economic goals include: subsidies, premiums, regresses, compensations and export primes. Subsidies are most prevalent form of transfers with the economic objective, and most funds are transferred through them in agriculture, industry, steel, coal, shipbuilding, transport, fisheries and aquaculture. The aim of this study is to examine how individual countries separate for transfers with economic goals and what is their structure on examples of the following countries: USA, Sweden, France, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia and Serbia. The research results show that the countries are very different, both in terms of volume, and by the structure of funds allocated for these purposes

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