The Accounts Chamber checked budget execution in the first half of the year

The board of the Accounts Chamber approved an operational report on the progress of the federal budget for the first half of 2009, as stated in a message published on the website of the Accounts Chamber.

The report notes that the execution of the federal budget is carried out in the conditions of negative impact on the country's economy of the global financial crisis, as a result of which prices for Russian export goods fell, the ruble exchange rate decreased and unemployment increased.

Budget revenues in January-June 2009 decreased by 1.2 trillion rubles, or 27.5%compared to the corresponding period last year. If you do not take into account income from the management of the reserve fund and the national welfare fund, then by all 33.3%. A sharp reduction in income led to the formation of a federal budget deficit, which in the first half of the year amounted to 4.2% of GDP.

Despite a large deficit, the situation is even worse with expenses: the government spent only 40% of approved appointments. Particular attention in the report is drawn to the unsatisfactory execution of expenses by individual main managers of the federal budget funds.

The costs of the implementation of federal target programs (FCP) amounted to only 18.7% of the annual budgetary appointments. The implementation of five FCP (9.8% of the total) was not carried out at all.

The report also notes the unsatisfactory execution of the expenses of the federal budget of a social orientation.

The costs of the sale of priority national projects (PNP) amounted to 62 billion rubles, or 21.6% of the annual budgetary appointments. At the same time, within the framework of the PNP "Health", expenses were not made aimed at the formation of a healthy lifestyle of citizens, including reducing the consumption of alcohol and tobacco, as well as to improve the organization of cancer assistance to the population.

As in previous years, the execution of expenses on PNP was significantly lower than the average level of execution of federal budget expenditures. The uneven cash execution of expenses during the year reduces the efficiency of the use of budget funds and leads to non -fulfillment of budget assignments in full.

According to the Accounts Chamber, the analysis of income revenues for January-June 2009 indicates a high probability of non-fulfillment of the approved predicted volume of federal budget revenues due to Neneftegas revenues.