Incomes become more wage expenses in Government

For 94.6m euros, state budget revenues have dropped during the first quarter of this year.

Of the 503.1 million last quarter, they have dropped to 408.5 million or 18.8 percent, Koha Ditore writes today. These data have emerged from the Statistics Agency's report on government accounts in Kosovo for the first quarter of this year, under which the amount of income in Kosovo is less than spending.

Salaries increased for 3.6m euros in the first quarter of this year. Compared to the same period in the preliminary year, they amounted to 7.8m euros.

During January March, the total amount of revenues has reached 408.5m euros, where most of the revenues make up taxes on products that represent 63 percent of total incomes, while the rest of the revenues have been distributed into other income categories.