The State Tax Service collected over 35 billion lei into the national public budget in January-November 2019, an increase of 5.6% or 1.9bn lei compared with the corresponding period last year, IPN reports.

In a press release, the Service says 15.3 billion lei was collected into the state budget, up 4.4% or 644.1 million lei. The amounts collected into the local budgets came to 3.5 billion lei, which is by 0.7% or 26 million lei more than in the same period of 2018.

A sum of 12 billion lei was gathered into the state social insurance budget, up 5.1% or 578.7 million lei. The amounts collected into the mandatory health insurance funds totaled 4.2 billion lei, a rise of 16.9% or 609.1 million lei compared with January – November 2018.