In recent years, responding to major economic crisis and other emergency situations, the Executive Yuan has issued special budgets in addition to the annual budgets compiled in accordance with the Budget Act. Apart from increasing the government's fiscal burden, the special budgets are also suspected of serving as a means of evading the debt limit imposed by the Public Debt Act. But do the special budgets actually boost the economy? This study takes nine major administrative expenditure items in special budgets (subtracted from total annual expenditures) added to the annual expenditures of all levels of government from 1984 to 2013 as the explanatory variables, and uses a multiple regression model to verify the relationship between economic growth and various administrative expenditures and special budgets. The empirical results indicate that defense expenditures, community development and environmental protection expenditures, other expenditures, and special budgets have a significant positive correlation with economic growth.