Moldovan capital's budget for 2022 voted in second reading
16:45 | 21.12.2021 Category: Social
Chisinau, 21 December /MOLDPRES/ - The Chisinau Municipal Council (CMC) today voted the capital’s budget for 2022 in the second reading.
Under the draft adopted, the municipal budget includes revenues worth over 5 billion lei and expenses amounting to more than 6 billion lei, with a budget deficit of about 1.2 billion lei.
The head of the city hall’s finances general department, Olesea Psenitchi, has said that the municipal budget was a pro-social one. ‘Over 57 per cent of the expenses envisaged in the 2022 year budget are social expenditures. It is about spending for the compensations provided to residents at risk as to the payment of thermal energy bills, as well as expenses for the municipal education and health institutions,’’ Psenitchi also said.
The official noted that the municipal budget’s figure would increase in 2022 and the budget deficit would decrease.
“For this year, the draft budget includes revenues worth 5, 428, 412, 700 lei, of which own revenues account for 787, 804, 700 lei (15.1 per cent), 1,616, 900, 000 lei represent deductions from state taxes and duties (31.5 per cent), 2, 618, 328, 500 lei represent transfers from the state budget and the rest represent revenues from services provided, donations, payment for the lease of the heritage assets,’’ Psenitchi specified.
The expenses of the 2022 budget are structured on diverse categories, among which: 3, 577, 112, 600 lei (57.2 per cent) on social purposes, up by 4.3 per cent against 2021; 3, 030, 911, 600 lei for the communal and municipal economy, increasing by 20.1 per cent against 2021; 196, 196, 600 lei for programmes of investments and capital repair, growing by 1.3 per cent against 2021; 252, 287, 200 lei for maintenance of the fulfillment authorities and the administrative bodies, increasing by 23.2 per cent against 2021.
The municipal budget was voted by CMC factions of the Party of Socialists, Dignity and Truth Platform Party, Party of Communists and Democratic Party.
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