160b afs revenue collected in 11 months: MoF

KABUL, showing more than 10 percent increase over the same period last year.

In a statement, the Ministry of Finance said the revenue included 66 billion afghanis in customs duty and 94 billion afghanis from other sources.

The MoF recalled it had collected 150 billion afs during the same period last year. An amount of 318 billion afs was spent from national budgets from the beginning of the year which accounted 17.7 percent national budget.

According to the statement, development spending since the beginning of the current fiscal year is 5 billion afghanis, indicating a rise of 4.9 billion afs.

It added since the beginning of the fiscal year, 92 billion afs had been spent in development budget -- a 9.5 billion increase compared to last year.

The ministry said 226 billion afghanis had been spent from the general budget.

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