Today the deputy minister Pavel Safaryan in the joint session of the permanent commission of state and legal, finance and loan and budget affairs informed that the state budget expenditure on the government machine is planned to be 62 billion 470.2 million drams which is 16.1% higher compared to 2011 and 7.7% higher compared to 2012.
According to Safaryan, the salary increase in the government machine has increased with 5.7 billion drams, out of which 4.9 billion was acquired due to income tax transition. 690 million drams is the normal growth of the salary and 328 million deals with the structural changes. “While making the government expenditure plan for 2013 an economical approach was used. There have been more reductions rather than increases”, Safaryan assures.