Friday 19 / April / 2024
Muscat: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has issued a decree authorising the ratification of the state budget for the fiscal year 2019, with a total estimated at just over OMR10 billion.
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The estimated total revenues from the state budget for 2019 is calculated on a base oil price of $58 per barrel, and is valued at around OMR10,100,000,000 (ten billion and one hundred million).
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The total public expenditure is estimated at OMR12,900,000,000 (twelve billion and nine hundred million), an increase of OMR400 million from the estimated expenditure for 2018.
It is estimated that the deficit of the budget of 2019 is about OMR2.8 billion, or 9 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), where 86 per cent of the budget deficit will be financed through external and domestic borrowing, while the rest of the deficit will be financed through the withdrawal of reserves.
