State budget revenues beat forecasts

The revenues accumulated to the state budget over January-November 2007 totalled about 12.3 billion lei, or by 2.2% more than projected. The basic incomes of the state budget added up to 10.8 billion lei. The incomes to the special funds amounted to 163.7 million lei, while the public institutions financed from the state budget collected special funds of about 1.04 billion lei. About 11.9 billion lei was spent from the state budget in January-November 2007. This is approximately 93% of the plan and by 35.2% more compared with the corresponding period last year. The basic spending of the state budget came to 10.2 billion lei, making up 97% of the forecasts. A sum of 53 million USD (642.4 million lei) went to service the foreign loans taken out by Moldova. About 380 million lei was used for repaying the internally held public debt.