The United States registers a 1. 294 trillion-U.S.-dollar budget deficit in the just-completed fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30, the U.S. Treasury Department announced on Friday. This figure fell in line with analysts' prediction. It is improving from 1.42 trillion dollars in the 2009 fiscal year, roughly 10 percent of the economy, but still leaves this year's government deficit nearly three times as large as that in 2008 standing at 455 billion dollars. 'The decline in the deficit from last year was due to a combination of higher receipts and lower outlays,' according to a joint statement released by U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Jeffrey Zients. The U.S. government receipts totaled 2.162 trillion dollars in 2010 fiscal year, and were 57 billion dollars higher than the previous fiscal year, an increase of 2.7 percent. 