Moldovan government fully honours payment commitments in last January

Chisinau, 6 February /MOLDPRES/ - Revenues amounting to 4.96 billion lei were collected in the national public budget in January 2021, up by 251.1 million lei against January 2020, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.  

At the same time, the expenses stood at 5 billion lei, increasing by 252.2 million euros against January last year. The fulfillment of the national public budget resulted in a deficit of 38.5 million lei. The balances of financial assets in the accounts of the budgets components of the national public budget amounted to 6.7 billion lei.     

At the same time, the state budget revenues stood at three billion lei in the first month of 2021, up by 262.2 million lei against January 2020. The revenues managed by the State Fiscal Service (SFS) were worth 1.6 billion lei, by 177 million lei more against January last year and the revenues managed by the Customs Service stood at 1.5 billion lei, increasing by 59.8 million lei against the first month of the year before.

The state budget’s expenses were fulfilled in a sum of 3.6 billion lei, up by 76.9 million lei against January 2020. The carrying out of the state budget resulted in a deficit worth 611.7 million lei. The balances of financial assets in the accounts of the state budget amounted to 3.8 billion lei.        

The acting government fully honoured the commitments of payment of salaries and social benefits for last January. Thus, there are no risks of non-fulfillment of the expenses approved in the budget, given that the budget has enough financial resources and permanently provides a prudent management of the liquidities.  In this respect, we note that the salaries, pensions, social benefits and other priority expenses will be paid fully and in time.

To overcome the pandemic crisis, the efficient management of public money represents the maximal priority of the government, thus contributing to the foremost goal of overcoming the pandemic crisis and, respectively, re-launching of the national economy.  

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