Minister of Finance of South Ossetia Aza Khabalova at today's meeting of the government presented a report on the state budget performance for the first nine months of 2013.
According to her, revenues of the state budget for the reporting period amounted to 3 billion 870 million 127 thousand roubles.
"Non-tax revenues are executed in the amount of 18,892,000 rubles, tax revenues - 271.766 million rubles, which is 59.4% of annual budget allocations. The main reason for the shortfall here is the reduction of profit tax. Due to the fact that the implementation of the Investment program in 2013 started late, the Committee on taxes and duties on some items could not perform all indicators,"- said Khabalova.
The Minister noted poor performance of revenues from the use of property in state ownership. According to her, the State Property Committee has to take measures to improve the collection of revenues and tighter administration on existing contracts.
According to her, financial aid to South Ossetia- is also non-tax revenues and is administered by the Ministry of Finance.
"For nine months we received 2,000,000,000 629,916,000. The overall performance index is 67.9%. We receive the funds regularly on the submission of a monthly report to the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation and then we get the next tranche of a month. There is no problem, but the problem was due the shortfall in funds allocated for the implementation of the Investment program. The first tranche of this paper was received on September 18, "- explained Khabalova.
She has stressed that the creation of accounts payable for protected articles is not permitted and all obligations according to the law on the state budget are executed in the same extent as laid budget allocations. The discussion of the budget execution report for the nine months was approved and will soon be submitted to the Parliament.
The Cabinet also approved a draft law providing for a number of changes in the law on the budget of the Pension Fund of South Ossetia.
In addition, it was approved the regulation, structure and staffing level of the Ministry of Finance. The questions are related to the establishment of the Treasury.
The meeting participants approved the rates of payment per unit of timber forest plantations and the question of calculation of the size of harm caused to forests due to violation of forestry.
In addition, the government decided to allocate from the reserve Fund of the Chairman of the government the funds in the amount of one million 933 thousand rubles, provided for payment of cost of repairs of the hospital in the village of Sinagur and the infectious diseases hospital.
