The budget deficit rose to 8.65% of GDP last year, from 5.61% of GDP in 2023, according to data published on Wednesday evening by the Ministry of Finance.In the ESA system, a higher budget deficit was recorded in 2009 - 9.5% and in the year of the pandemic 2020 - 9.2%."The execution of the general consolidated budget for 2024, according to operational data, ended with a deficit of 152.72 billion RON, respectively 8.65% of GDP compared to the deficit of 90.06 billion RON, respectively 5.61% of GDP, for 2023", announced the Ministry of Finance.Total revenues amounted to 574.60 billion RON in 2024, registering an advance of 10.4% (year/year), supported by current revenue receipts (+17.4%): mainly insurance contributions, VAT, excise duties, payroll and income tax, profit tax and non-tax revenues, which also include the effects of the tax amnesty established by Emergency Ordinance no. 107/2024.The consolidated general budget expenditures in the amount of 727.32 billion RON increased in nominal terms by 19.1% compared to the previous year. Expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product, expenditures for 2024 registered an increase of 3.16 percentage points compared to 2023, from 38.06% of GDP to 41.22% of GDP.The budget for 2024 was initially built on a deficit of 5% of GDP.
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A new alley named after Romanian diplomat Nicolae Titulescu was inaugurated on Tuesday, December 9, in Paris’s Parc Monceau during a ceremony attended by Romania’s president Nicușor Dan and Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo. “I expressed my appreciation for the decision to name an alley in the beautiful Parc Monceau in Paris after the great Romanian […]
Oxygen Resort, a development located in central Romania’s Harghita county, has inaugurated its first bungalows. The first 18 bungalows are already functional, with another 17 units to be completed in the next stage, bringing the total to 35. The inauguration of the bungalows “marks the transition from a center dedicated predominantly to recreational activities to […]
Romania carried out a new medical evacuation mission for civilians from Gaza on Monday, December 8, transporting eight Palestinian patients and 29 accompanying relatives to Bucharest for treatment, according to the Department for Emergency Situations (DSU). The patients were evacuated aboard a Romanian Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft after lacking access to adequate medical care. […]
