"It is 136 million less than during the same period of 2014," the Prime Minister Tatyana Turanskaya told during meeting at the President
The Pridnestrovie's President Evgeny Shevchuk held a meeting with the Prime Minister Tatyana Turanskaya and the First Deputy Prime Minister Maya Parnas. Reported on The head of state was reported on the current performance of various budgets.
"The budget has received 713 million rubles of tax revenue since the beginning of 2015 that is 136 million less, than during the same period of 2014. Besides, more than 1 billion rubles were allocated to the financing of such social expenditure items as salaries and pensions since the beginning of the current year," the Prime Minister told.
Tatyana Turanskaya emphasized that the main reason for the republican budget revenue shortcoming is considerable reduction of the customs duty payments. As compared to the previous year, these payments were reduced by 90 million rubles, so today they are equal to only one third of the results of the same period in 2014.
"The Government continues to monitor the activities of the large industrial enterprises as the main taxpayers to the budget. According to its results, we can see the reduction of industrial outputs and this tendency is preserved since January of the current year. It also caused the budget revenue shortcoming and the export and import reduction," the First Deputy Prime Minister Maya Parnas noted. "If such tendency be preserved, the Government expects the unfunded budget deficiency in social items of about 1 billion rubles to the end of 2015."
It was emphasized at the meeting that being in such a difficult economic situation it was important to support the republic's enterprises so that they could keep workplaces during the crisis and work without the production suspension, the President's Press Office reports.
It was also talked about the government's liability on the social budget items at the meeting.
"The debt has amounted to about 16 million rubles in such budget items expenditures as food and medicines since January, 2015. At the beginning of March, we managed to repay this debt partially: on medicines – 6 million rubles, on food – the same sum. At the moment, the debts on each of these expenditure items amount to about 10 million rubles," the Prime Minister reported.
The President was also informed at the meeting that, according to the established special financing of salaries and pensions, 72% of the total salary is paid to the public sector employees. The Finance Ministry plans to fund this expenditure till the end of the current month. The pensions are paid to all pensioners of the republic according to the established schedule. To be noted that 100%-scale pensions are preserved for the participants of the Great Patriotic War and for the disabled people of the first category. Monthly unemployment compensation, baby care allowances are paid in full.
Besides, Tatyana Turanskaya reported that extra perks to the Pridnestrovie's pensions are paid from the Russian humanitarian aid since March 13 again. The perks were paid in three months. The pensioners who didn't receive the Russian aid during the current month will receive four-month payment in April.
