Unprecedented increase in budget revenues recorded in Moldova

Chisinau, 13 January /MOLDPRES/ -  The budgetary revenues increased by 50.3 per cent up to 9.6 billion lei in Moldova in 2014, against the year before, according to the State Fiscal Service (SFS).

A rise in revenues by 3.2 billion lei against 2013, and respectively, by 110.8 million lei against the forecast level means a lot, financial experts say. "The State Fiscal Service in 2014 showed that the pre-requisites of a good management of state revenues comes from the adoption of friendly policies towards the tax payers," SFS head Ion Prisacaru has said.  

Prisacaru described the increase in budgetary revenues as "substantial."  In 2014, rises in the budgetary revenues of administrative territorial units, state social insurances, as well as a slight decrease in the revenues of the mandatory health insurances' fund were registered.

Economists explain this  not so much by an economic growth, but through an enhancement of tax payers' awareness in terms declaring their incomes and paying taxes, as well as of revenues worth about one billion lei from paying taxes for the issuance of eight new licences to three mobile telephony companies.

The State Fiscal Service in 2014 collected revenues amounting to 23.4 billion lei in the National Public Budget, - up by 159.9 million lei against the forecast level. The state budget revenues reached 9.6 billion lei, by 110.8 million lei more against the forecast level. As much as 3.47 billion lei was collected in the budgets of administrative territorial units. The revenues in the state social insurances budget increased by 47.2 million lei up to eight billion lei.

At the same time, the State Fiscal Service said the revenues in the mandatory health insurances' fund had amounted to 2.3 billion lei, down by 10.5 million lei against the forecast level.