March 8 (SeeNews) - Serbia had a budget surplus of 6.1 billion dinars ($54.2 million/51.2 million euro) at the end of January, compared to a deficit of 8.1 billion dinars the same month a year earlier, the finance ministry said.
Total budget revenues rose by a real 21.3% on the year to 150.3 billion dinars in January, while expenditure went up 9.1% to 144.2 billion dinars, data from the country’s finance ministry showed on Tuesday.
Tax revenues increased by a real annual 20.1% to 136 billion dinars, non-tax revenues rose 29.1% year-on-year to 13.3 billion dinars, and grants doubled to 1 billion dinars.
On the expenditure side, capital expenditure increased to 17.1 billion dinars from 15.8 billion dinars.
Serbia's consolidated budget deficit stood at 235.2 billion dinars at the end of 2022.
(1 euro = 117.304 dinars)