An itemized account of the 1925 (January | to December 31) budget
appears below :
Revenue Expenditure
Direct taxes ...........\ ah. 083;493,000,0000War Office. ...... 00. iv itis 4,324,650,797
Indirect taxes .................. 9,635,000,000 Ministry of Finance............. 7,607,496,013
Stamp and registration duties.... 1,601,500,000 Ministry of Education.......... 2,150,780,000
State Monopolies ............... 4,711,386,000 Ministry of Cults and Art...... 551,586,831
Ministry of Communications..... 9,634,935.000 Home Office .................. 1,253,064,108
State demesne .... ET i, 384,000,000 Ministry of Public Works. Simin se 306,277,890
Subventions. oo... rl i 45,311,846 Ministry of Justice ............. 512,000,000
Ministry of Finance ........ ... 988,883,549 Ministry of Agriculture......... 723,250,000
Home OfBee suo. suns aswnnas os 38,633,000 Ministry of Industry & Commerce 438,737,012
Ministry of Justice ............. 54,470,000 Foreign Office ................. 227,924,500
Forelon Office ov. nrinisivlin 70,000,000 Ministry of Public Health and
in 3 Socialf Relief: ........ i anes 901,000,000
Ministry of Agriculture.......... 41,090,00¢ bri :
sie . Ministry of Labor, Cooperatives
Ministry of Public Health and of and’ Insurances 103,000,000
Social Relief"... ............;. 159,228,100 3 Signe Tey
cls : Ministry of Communications... .. 9,436,524,664
Ministry of Labor, Cooperatives ; J
and Insurance ............... 38,713,735 Cabinet ‘Council ".......:..... 3,265,967
Minist f Industry and Com- A
Yj tdusuy, 80d Lom: 770,240,000 Total.......... 28,540,458,769
War Office. ................ 0 28,270,000 For the improvement of the mater-
Ministry of Public Works. ....... 2,500,000 ial position of officials and pen-
Ministry of Education. .......... 33,972,000 SiOners ............cc00u00... 2,000,000,000
Ministry of Cults and Art....... 13,846,720 Fund for the payment of war
damages and requisitions... ... 250,000,000
Fund for opening supplementary
and extraordinary credits. ..... 059,541,231
Grand: total... ......% 31,749,980,000 Grand total.......... 31,750,000,000
B. — Import and Export Statistics
Year Imports Exports Balance
(in lei)
1922... -12,325,366,301 14,027,376,216 + 1,702,009,915
1923... a 19,712,941,400 24,372,675,295 + 4,659,733,895
1924............ .1026,292,000,000 27,829,000,000 + 537,000,000
1925 (Ist quarter). . 584,095,593 938,890,472 + 354,794.879
References: Analele Bancilor (in Roumanian and French), December, 1924; General
Budget of Roumania for the year 1925 (in English); Ministerul Finantelor, Expunere de
Motive Si proiect de Lege pentru Ratificarea Conventiunilor incheiate intre Ministerul
Finantelor Si Banca Nationala A Romaniei.
SERB-CROAT-SLOVENE STATE
A. — Budgetary Situation
According to the Constitution of and law regulating State accounts in the
Serb-Croat-Slovene State, the estimated budgetary receipts and expenditures
should be submitted to the Skoupchtina (Congress) between October 20th and
November 20th of each year. To date, however, this has not been done.
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