Azerbaijan, Baku, June 29 / Trend , N.Ismayilova/
In January-May in 2009, the Public budget income comprised 3994.4 million manats, or 35.1 percent of GDP. It decreased 1.9 percent, from the last year, a government source said.
Public budget expenses rose 23 percent and made up 3657.4 million manats (32.2 percent of the GDP). The surpluses of the budget totaled 337 million (2.9 percent of GDP).
Some 33.6 percent (1343.2 million manat) of revenues falls to the Taxes Ministry's and 13.6 percent (544.6 million manats) - to the customs duties and taxes with a 100.1 percent fulfillment of the forecast.
In this period a total of 858.9 million manats was obtained from VAT, or 21.5 percent of all income, 452.5 million manats (11.3 percent)- profit taxes, 238.7 million manats (6 percent) - income taxes, 97.9 million manats (2.5 percent) - excise taxes, 35.2 million manats (0.9 percent)- property taxes, 25.9 million manats (0.6 percent) - land taxes and 94.7 million manats (2.4 percent) -taxes from foreign economic activities.
The public budget expense for social security and provision of people comprised 464 million manats (12.7 percent). 398.3 million manats (10.9 percent) was spent on education, 129.3 million (3.5 percent) - health, 219.1 million (6 percent) - maintenance of prosecutor bodies, security and law-enforcement and court bodies, 1632.9 million (44.6 percent)- investment allocations, 60.1 million (1.6) - housing and communal services, 102.2 million (2.8 percent) - agriculture, fishing, 24.6 million (0.7 percent) - transport and communications, and 1129.1 million (30.9 percent) of Public expenses were spent on the payment of salaries, pension and allowances.
On June 29, the official exchange rate is 0.8041 manat to $1.
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