{"id":617496,"date":"2026-04-19T17:18:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617496\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T17:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:18:26","slug":"budget-surplus-in-first-quarter-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617496\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget surplus in first quarter of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Finance_Ministry_Acropolis.jpg\" alt=\"Budget surplus in first quarter of 2026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Finance_Ministry_Acropolis.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Greece recorded a budget surplus in the first quarter of 2026, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday, largely through higher than expected tax revenues and lower spending.<\/p>\n<p>A ministry statement said the budget presented a \u20ac1.49 billion surplus in January-March, compared to a targeted \u20ac111 million deficit and a \u20ac1.61 billion surplus a year earlier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The primary surplus, which excludes debt servicing costs, was \u20ac4.39 billion on a modified cash basis, compared to a budgetary target of \u20ac2.73 billion and \u20ac4.49 billion a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Net revenues hit \u20ac18.51 billion \u2013 \u20ac691 million above target \u2013 out of which \u20ac17.28 billion was in taxes. Expenditure was \u20ac17.02 billion, \u20ac913 million less than budgeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greece recorded a budget surplus in the first quarter of 2026, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday, largely through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,1480,99,164,39934],"class_list":{"0":"post-617496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-budget","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-taxation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}