{"id":401556,"date":"2026-04-28T13:25:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/401556\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T13:25:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:25:31","slug":"primary-budget-surplus-of-e4-37-billion-in-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/401556\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary budget surplus of \u20ac4.37 billion in Q1"},"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\/2026\/04\/tax_office_taxman_AADE_intime.jpg\" alt=\"Primary budget surplus of \u20ac4.37 billion in Q1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776513913_151_tax_office_taxman_AADE_intime-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[Intime News]<\/p>\n<p>Tax revenues in the state budget showed an improved performance at the end of the year\u2019s first quarter, with March figures further strengthening the overall fiscal outcome.<\/p>\n<p>According to provisional state budget execution data, the state budget surplus amounted to \u20ac1.47 billion in the first quarter of 2026, compared with a target deficit of \u20ac111 million included in the introductory report of the 2026 budget; and down from a surplus of \u20ac1.61 billion in the same period of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The primary balance recorded a surplus of \u20ac4.37 billion, against a target primary surplus of \u20ac2.73 billion and a primary surplus of \u20ac4.5 billion in the corresponding period of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Intime News] Tax revenues in the state budget showed an improved performance at the end of the year\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[11357,138,219,111,139,69,10530],"class_list":["post-401556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-budget","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-taxation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}