Performance of last year"s state budget adopted by deputies
BAKU/16.05.14/Turan : At today's session of Milli Majlis deputies approved the draft Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan "On the state budget for 2013 ", prepared by the Ministry of Finance . With the basic rates and trends by the chairman of the parliamentary committee of economic policy Ziyad Samadzadeh .
According to the speaker, the document is prepared in accordance with Article 96 of the Constitution and Article 20.3 of the Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan "On Budget System" and will enter into force after its approval by the President.
Budget revenues affirmed at 19,496,329,920 manats , expenses - 19,143,492,040 manats. The surplus was 352 837 880 manats. Remains of the single treasury account to January 1, 2014 (960,408,100 manats) will be used to cover the deficit and ensuring public debt.
Most of the money (68.9% or 11.35 billion) came from transfers from the State Oil Fund (SOFAR). Value added tax has 2,709,997,684 manats income (the most important contribution for the VAT on imported goods - 986.08 million). Advance corporation tax - 2,374,797,980 AZN income individuals - 859 678 450 manats. Among the major items - excise taxes - 593.31 million, customs duties - 298.25 million, property tax entities - 125.15 million, a tax on deposits - 121.48 million, the simplified tax - 119.54 million manat. Proceeds from the difference of costs and wholesale prices of regulated contracts of goods produced in Azerbaijan amounted to 370.56 million, "other tax fees" - 269.6 million, the state fee - 123.56 million, other income - 65.26 manats.
The most significant items of expenditure - expenditure on investment projects (6 913 798 220 manat) and "services beyond the basic directions" (2 684 442 040 manat) , where the costs of special military projects amounted to 1.16 billion manat. To other expenses classified as compensation to depositors of the former USSR Savings Bank - 324 million manat and compensation for victims of natural disasters - 140 million manat .
For social benefits allocated 1.75 billion manat, and of them 1.08 billion (61.7%) - transfers from SOFAR to the needs of the state social security fund. The Ministry of Education received 1,437,720,000, and the Ministry of Health received 618 938 370 manat.
To ensure the external public debt took 728.24 million for the maintenance of the executive power - 349.33 million, for membership in international organizations - 103.46 million for the maintenance of Science - 117 million to subsidize the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic - 277.7 million manat.
Directly spent on defense 1,484,984,490 manats , and 91% of them intended for the Ministry of Defense, and the rest - for MNB and military research .
The judiciary, police and prosecutors received 1.05 billion manat, housing and communal services - 398.32 million , "culture , including physical , art , information, and other activities that do not fall under the other categories " - 274 88 million manats
To the needs of agriculture and the environment last year allocated 487.89 million, communications and transport - 110.53 million in economic development invested 275.76 million manat. To support entrepreneurs there was 201.74 million and for mortgage lending - 40 million manat. - 17D-
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