{"id":246830,"date":"2026-01-15T22:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/246830\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T22:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:41:12","slug":"primary-budget-surplus-hits-e8-billion-beating-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/246830\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary budget surplus hits \u20ac8 billion, beating target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/fc912452249a82b11995bb95d58e76bf_upourgeio66293-3.jpg\" alt=\"Primary budget surplus hits \u20ac8 billion, beating target\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fc912452249a82b11995bb95d58e76bf_upourgeio66293-3-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Finance wants to boost flagging mergers and acquisitions activity by extending tax breaks to smaller companies; it would also reward those that do not shed part of their workforce. [INTIME]<\/p>\n<p>The state budget\u2019s primary surplus strongly exceeded targets last year resulting in a small overall surplus, according to preliminary data provided by the Finance Ministry Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The primary surplus \u2013 which excludes the cost of servicing Greece\u2019s public debt \u2013 hit \u20ac8 billion in January-December 2025, compared to a budgetary target of \u20ac5.32 billion. The overall budget surplus reached \u20ac17 million, against a targeted deficit of \u20ac2.58 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ministry of Finance wants to boost flagging mergers and acquisitions activity by extending tax breaks to smaller&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5168,72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-246830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-budget","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}