Budget primary surplus grows in April thanks to one-off revenues and restricted spending

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Budget primary surplus grows in April thanks to one-off revenues and restricted spending

EconomyMacroeconomy 13/05/2015 - 16:43 Tags: Budget, MoF, Revenues, Taxes

Greece’s 4-month budget primary surplus more than doubled to 2.16 billion euros from 1.05 billion last year, according to the Finance Ministry (MoF) preliminary budget bulletin published on Wednesday.

More importantly, the outperformance of 1.6 billion euros in Q1 widened to 2.45 billion in the 4-month period.

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