Logo 31 Jan 2023

A terrible fiscal year

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The year 2022 is one the Ministry of Finance (MoF) will probably want to forget.
On Monday, the MoF released full-year fiscal data – and it makes for grim reading.
Just how grim?
Fiscal income in the general budget – by far the biggest of the MoF's four budget baskets – barely budged (MoF):

Revenue...