State budget income picture gets nicer

The state budget's income target for the first month of 2008 was fulfilled. Yet the New Year’s 10 holidays couldn’t help affect certain indices. The incomes gained in January 2008 were slightly smaller than in the first month of 2007, when Moldova celebrated only three days, Info-Prim Neo reports. The picture, presented on March 6 by Finance Minister Mihai Pop, on executing the budget during two months seemed more attractive. Thus, in January-February, the state budget got incomes amounting to 1.85 billion lei, what is 104.1% of the expected or 164.3m lei more than in the first months of the last year. The basic incomes were 1.62 billion lei (105.5%) or 144.5m lei more than in January-February 2007. The daily incomes were 58m lei during this period as compared to 36.3m lei, yet below the daily average recorded in 2007 (over 39m lei.) The expenditures amounted to 2.22 billion lei during the considered period, 428m lei more than in the first two months of 2007. USD4.8m (54m lei) were directed to cover the foreign debt (credits and interests) in January-February, as 101.1m lei were used to service the domestic state debt. The budgets of the territorial administrative units got a total of 961m lei during this period of time, what is 100.1% of the expected figures. The expenditures amounted to 829m lei, a 28% rise compared to January-February 2007. E.N. – 1,000,000 Moldovan lei = $90,156