(ANSA) - ROME, 01 JUL - The requirement for the first half of the current year is approximately 84,800 million, an improvement of approximately 10,400 million compared to that recorded in the same period of 2020 (95,212 million). Mef communicates. In June 2021 the balance of the summer sector closed, provisionally, with a requirement of 15.800 million, an improvement of approximately 4.900 million compared to the result of the same month last year (20.749 million). The improvement is almost exclusively due to the recovery of tax and social security payments that were suspended for Covid and the increase in VAT on imports. Semprea June - explains the Mef - on the expenditure side, there is an increase in payments by local administrations,greater disbursements of non-repayable contributions by the Revenue Agency and greater expenses by the Ordinary Commissioner to support the measures envisaged by the measures for containing the epidemiological emergency.
The interest expenditure on government bonds is in line with that of June 2020. (ANSA).