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2023 state budget concept sets down 3% deficit

Minister of Finance Rositza
Photo: BGNES

The Ministry of Finance presented a concept for a 2023 draft budget with a 3% deficit.

The draft sets down a 10% increase in budgetary sector salaries in the sectors in which this has not yet been done. The draft also envisages the imposition of excess profits tax – a single solidarity contribution for the second quarter of 2023, as well as the reinstatement of some of the VAT rates that were reduced during the Covid-19 pandemic, with the exception of  VAT on bread, flour, baby foods and books, restriction of business trips and representation expenditure, raising excise duty on e-cigarettes.

The draft was approved at today’s government sitting.



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