Ministry: Russia’s budget surplus at 741 bln rbl in March

MOSCOW, Apr 13 (PRIME) -- Russia’s federal budget surplus amounted to 741.355 billion rubles in March, the Finance Ministry said late on Monday.

The January–March estimate amounts to 205 billion rubles. The February figure was recalculated to 480.357 billion rubles from 589 billion rubles.

Budget revenue in January–March amounted to 5.299 trillion rubles, including 1.618 trillion rubles of energy revenue and 3.681 trillion rubles of non-energy revenue.

Spending stood at 5.094 trillion rubles in the period.

The Federal Tax Service contributed 3.35 trillion rubles to the budget, the Federal Customs Service almost 1.33 trillion rubles, the rest of the federal agencies 614.488 billion rubles.

(77.5104 – U.S. $1)

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