strong>Grants expected by government was off by $3 billion to October this year but a $6.7 billion jump in tax collection more than made up for shortfall and helped deliver a budget beating performance by $3 billion.
The positives on the revenue front helped to create a smaller deficit than planned by $14 million, an improvement of 44 percent.
With the fiscal year unwinding and the revenue gains, plus cost reduction elsewhere, the Government cut the under spending on the capital front from $6.5 billion at the end of September to $3.5 billion at the end of October. Interest savings keeps on climbing and now stands at $4.6 billion up from $3.4 billion at the end of September and could well end up around $10 billion by March next year. Wages that was underspent by $3.9 billion is down to just $1.6 billion below budget.
At the end of October the fiscal was deficit was $18 billion and the primary surplus $53.77 billion versus $44.3 billion planned.
GOJ rakes in taxes hikes capital spend
December 2, 2015 by IC Insider.com
Filed Under: Economy, Feature Stories Tagged With: GOJ fiscal deficit, GOJ primary surplus, GOJ revenues, GOJ tax revenues
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[…] Government revenues fell and expenditure rose in December thus reducing the gains make in these areas, in the first nine months of the fiscal year. The fiscal surplus that was on target with the original plan has been cut by $5.7 billion and is now at $69.45 billion compared with a budgeted amount of $75.16 billion. The decline in the primary surplus is in keeping with the reduction approved by the international Fund last year. The target was lower from 7.5 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to 7.25 per cent for the remainder of the current fiscal year, freeing up approximately $4 billion to be spent and to 7 percent for the 2016/17 fiscal year. For the period to January, tax revenues were ahead of target by $3.8 billion and is down from $6.6 billion from the end of 2015, interest cost that was down $4.8 billion to December, lost some of the savings, with it being $3.1 billion by January while the wages bill exceeded forecast by $3.7 billion in January having been $2.3 billion ahead of target up to December. Other expenditure that was underspend by $540 million to December is now over by $2.2 billion to January. The fiscal deficit has climbed by $2.6 billion above forecast to $37.34 billion. Up to December the deficit was ahead of target by $5.8 billion at $25 billion. Inflows from Bauxite Levy and grants continue to underperform with a shortfall of $5.2 billion to January. […]