Oil fund ensured 58.2% of payments of state budget
During 2013 incomes of the Azerbaijan state budget totaled 19,494,400,000 AZN, while expenses – 19,112,600,000 AZN, reported the Azerbaijan Finance Ministry.
According to the Finance Ministry, in 2013 transfers from the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) to the state budget of Azerbaijan totaled 11,350,000,00 AZN or 58.2% of all budgetary incomes.
The payments to the state budget from the Taxes Ministry totaled 6,664,000,000 AZN and from the State Customs Committee – 1,382,200,000 AZN.—0---
Economics
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