The Independent Analytical Center “Expert-Grup” said that before announcing the budget austerity in June 2015, the Government planned to collect revenues of over 45 billion lei into the national public budget. Of this sum, 30.4 billion lei was designed for the state budget, 13.5 billion lei for the social insurance budget, while 5.16 billion lei for the mandatory health insurance fund. The Center examined how this money was to be spent this year, IPN reports.

Some 15.43 billion lei of the state budget incomes of 30.4 billion lei was to be collected from VAT, almost 4 billion lei from excise duties, while about 3 billion lei from the taxes paid by legal entities and private individuals and from grants.

Of the expenditure of over 34 billion lei, more than 7 billion lei was to be transferred to the local public authorities, over 3 billion lei for infrastructure, while less than 1 billion lei for subsidization.

More than 8 billion lei was to be transferred to the education sector, over 6 billion lei – for social assistance and insurance, while 5.6 billion lei to the territorial-administrative units for special purposes.

The national defense, science and innovation, environment protection and external activity are the sectors that receive the lowest allocations from the state budget. These sectors were to receive less than 1 billion lei each.