The tax on salaries "supplied" the state coffers - 6-month period/ Consumption increases, the budget surplus reaches 335 million euros
The first half of the year closed with positive performance in revenues collected in the state budget, which by June reached around 366 billion lekë, a realization of 100.6% of the plan for the period.
While the budget surplus level resulted in around 33.5 billion lek in the first 6 months.
According to data from the Ministry of Finance, compared to the same period a year ago, about 22.8 billion lek or 228 million euros more were collected. Expressed in percentage, the overshoot is 6.7%. Tax revenues collected by the tax administration (revenues from net VAT in the country, profit tax, personal income tax, national taxes), have had the highest growth and for the period January - June 2025, were realized in the amount of 128.7 billion lek, 16.5 billion lek or 14.7% more than January - June 2024. Compared to the plan, the collected revenues are 2.8 billion lek more.
Personal income tax is the item that has had the best performance due to the anti-informality campaign and under-declaration of salaries, with an increase of 26.6 percent compared to the previous year, and collections reached 40.8 billion lek.
Followed by revenues collected from net VAT, which reached 33.2 billion lek, with an increase of 20.8% compared to the first 6 months of 2024, which also indicates higher consumption by citizens and tourists.
Revenues from Special Funds were realized in the amount of 87.6 billion lek, with an increase of 12.5%. 33.2 billion lek were collected from profit tax and 21.5 billion lek from national taxes, these items having experienced a slight increase compared to the previous year.
Customs revenues (revenues from VAT on imports, excise duties, customs duties and mineral royalties) were realized at a value of 113.6 billion lek, 3.7 billion lek or 3.4% more than in the first 6 months of 2024.
The best performance was achieved by excise revenues, which reached 32.1 billion lek, an increase of 11.2 percent, 75.9 billion lek were collected from VAT on imports, an increase of 0.9%, and 1.1 billion lek from mineral royalties.
Capital expenditures for the 6-month period of 2025 amounted to approximately 32 billion lek. Compared to the same period a year ago, this item was 20.8% higher or approximately 5.5 billion lek more, as well as a realization of 108.1% of the plan for the period.
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