Bashkiria budget will increase by 12.5 billion rubles in 2019

UFA, 15 March 2019. /Bashinform News Agency, Azat Gizatullin/ translated by Tatiana Aksyutina/.

The revenue part of the Bashkortostan budget for 2019 will be increased by 12.5 billion rubles. It will be made through an increase in the planned tax and non-tax revenues in the current year by 3.83 billion rubles, as well as due to an increase in the volume of gratuitous receipts from the federal budget by 8.47 billion and from the Fund for Assistance to the Housing and Public Utilities Reform by 283 million rubles. Amendments to the budget of the republic will be reviewed at the next plenary meeting of the State Assembly. Today the document was supported by the budget committee of the republican parliament.

Together with the revenues, it is planned to increase the expenditure side of the budget. It will grow by 19.2 billion rubles.

“Additional funds are planned to be allocated for the purchase of municipal equipment, the completion of facilities construction for the 100th anniversary of the republic, the resettlement of citizens from the dilapidated housing stock, the increase in expenditures of the Road Fund of Bashkortostan, support for the housing and utilities sector, the social sphere of the republic, and the real economy”, the Chairman of the State Assembly of Bashkortostan Konstantin Tolkachev marked.

After the amendments, the main parameters of the republic’s budget for the current year will be as follows: revenues - 188.17 billion rubles, expenses - 214.84 billion, the deficit - 26.67 billion rubles.