GOVERNMENT APPROVES BILL ON 2009 STATE BUDGET

Noyan Tapan

Se p 25, 2008

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 25, NOYAN TAPAN. At the September 25 sitting,
the Armenian government approved the bill on the 2009 state budget
of the Republic of Armenia, which will be submitted to the National
Assembly in order envisaged by law, NT was informed by the government’s
press service.

By the bill, the revenues of the consolidated budget will make 927.1
bln drams (without revenues received from interbudgetary transfers),
the expenditures – 967.1 bln drams (without interbudgetary transfers),
and the deficit will make 40 bln drams.

The 2009 budgets of Armenian communities will amount to 50.1 bln drams
(revenues and expenditures, with revenues including official grants
from the state budget).

The bill proposes approving the 2009 state of the RA in the following
amounts: revenues – 905.4 bln drams, expenditures – 945.4 bln drams,
deficit – 40 bln drams.

Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan instructed all the ministries and
departments to present editorial notes about the bill to the RA
ministry of finance within 2 days so that the final text of the
document could be submitted to the NA within the envisaged period.