At the end of September 2024, the budget balance recorded a deficit of around 994 million dinars (MD), compared to a deficit of 1.424 billion dinars recorded at the end of September 2023, i.e. a reduction of 30%, according to the note ” Provisional results of the provisional execution of the State budget at the end of September 2024”, published recently by the Ministry of Finance.
In fact, budgetary resources increased by 9.6%, to stand at 33.740 billion dinars, against 30.787 billion dinars, at the end of September 2023.
The improvement in budgetary resources comes mainly from a 9.5% increase in tax revenue which (revenue) reached 31.080 billion dinars, as well as non-tax revenue which increased by 1.4% from 2.1 billion to 2.128 billion dinars.
In return, budgetary expenses increased at a slower rate of 7.2%, going from 31.902 billion dinars at the end of September 2023 to 34.203 billion dinars at the end of September 2024.
This evolution of budgetary expenses is explained by the increase recorded in remuneration expenses (+3% to 16.592 billion dinars), management expenses (+11.8% to 1.368 billion dinars), intervention expenses (+12.6% to 8.329 billion dinars), and expenses for financial operations (+7.1% to 30 MD), as well as financing charges (interest on debt) (+20% to 4.873 billion dinars), with the exception of investment expenditure which fell by 2.4% to stand at 3.010 billion dinars, at the end of September 2024 against 3.085 billion of dinars, during the same period of 2023.
It should be noted that remuneration expenses represent 48.51% of the total budgetary expenses, while the share of intervention expenses is of the order of 24.35%, and those of investment is 8.80%. %.
As for cash resources, they amounted to nearly 12.598 billion dinars, coming from borrowing resources of 17.460 billion dinars (distributed between domestic borrowings: 15.514 billion dinars and loans external resources: 1.945 billion dinars), as well as other cash resources (- 4.862 billion dinars).
These resources were allocated particularly to the repayment of the principal of the debt in the amount of 11.539 billion dinars (4.512 billion dinars relating to the internal debt and 7.026 billion dinars relating to the external debt).
