Rate of budget revenues formed 1.5%: Finance Minister

ASTANA. January 29. KAZINFORM /Zauresh Balkenova/ Rate of increase in the national budget incomes in 2008 formed on the level of 1.5 percent excluding crude export tax. Kazakh Minister of Finance Bolat Zhamishev has announced it the Ministry?s Collegium; Kazinform reports.

?We have never had an index of 1.5 percent?, the Minister emphasized. According to him, indicators of the budget revenues show tendencies in our economy. ?KZT 4 trln 34 bln or 99.6 percent was credited to the budget revenue in 2008?, B.Zhamishev said. ?Last year budget implementation was ensured by timely decision on introduction of the crude export tax?, the Minister noted.