OREANDA-NEWS.  August 16, 2012. The economic agents' debts to the state budget (for budgetary payments without penalties and fines) amounted to 410.3 million lei in late 2011, after a 17.3-per cent increase during the year, according to a report on the audit of the 2011 state budget's fulfilment, considered by the Chamber of Auditors (CCRM).

The biggest debts were recorded in the taxes managed by the State Fiscal Service, respectively, 338.1 million lei, and the Customs Service bodies - 172.2 million lei. The economic agents have debts especially at the payment of the value added tax (VAT). The quota of this debt accounts for 84.5 per cent of all the debts, while the non-payment of the income taxes in the entrepreneurial activity and excise duties represent only 4.2 and 2.3 per cent of the overall debts.

The Chamber of Auditors said "the debts of the economic agents to the state budget represent a continuous problem, which shows a need to strengthen capacity of the bodies in charge of fiscal management in the amassing of incomes." The Finance Ministry does not have information on all the debts in the integral structure of the types of incomes and managers of these payments, in order to monitor and enhance the responsibility of all the bodies competent with the managing of public incomes and to increase the budget revenues, the audit report says.

At the same time, the audit mission found out that the government's report on the 2011 state budget's fulfilment was worked out in line with the accepted provisions. The 2011 state budget revenues reached 18.639 billion lei, - down by 428.8 million than scheduled. The state budget deficit exceeded the forecast level by 5.5 per cent.

At the CCRM meeting, Finance Minister Veaceslav Negruta said the quota of the state debt in the Gross Domestic Product is decreasing. At the same time, the minister noted that, over the past three years, the government had managed to considerably lower the budget deficit, which stood at 6.3 per cent in 2009.

As for the budget expenses, the auditors said they were not fully turned to account - the spending was fulfilled at a level between 69.6 and 99.9 per cent. This fact, in some cases, "shows low capacities of the budget executors" to turn to account the budget allocation, "and in other cases - unreal evaluation of the needs of resources."