Tax collection drops in Murmansk
Tax authorities in Murmansk Oblast have collected 1,4 billion RUB less than budgeted in the first four months of the year.
Regional Minister of Finance Yevgeniya Mironenko in a committee meeting this week confirmed that tax revenues in the period have dropped 1.4 billion RUB while spending is up 391 million RUB year on year, Murman.ru reports. Ms. Mironenko in the meeting underlined that the financing of all long-term social programmes are followed up according to plans. The minister said that the municipalities of Pechenga, Apatity and Kirovsk are the ones currently most successful economically.