BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 8. The monthly reports on state budget execution for the first half of the year note that financing of the budget deficit from domestic borrowing and balances of targeted budget funds showed no implementation against the forecast of 989 million manat ($581.7million) and 9.6 million manat ($5.6 million).
Data obtained by Trend from the Chamber of Accounts indicates that while 45 million manat ($26.4 million) was projected to finance the deficit from the balance of the Unified Treasury Account, actual financing reached 76.9 million manat ($45.2 million).
For the first six months of 2025, state budget revenues were projected at 19.1 billion manat ($11.2 billion), expenditures at 17.3 billion manat ($10.1 billion), and a surplus of 1.8 billion manat ($1 billion). Actual revenues amounted to 19.8 billion manat ($11.6 billion) and expenditures to 17 billion manat ($9.9 billion), resulting in a surplus of 2.7 billion manat ($1.5 billion), which is 885 million manat ($520.5 million) above the forecast.
