17 billion dirhams combined spending surplus

«Finance»: 161 billion dirhams government spending in the UAE during the first half

Al-Maliya: The UAE realized from an early age the importance of sharing data and information.

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The federal and local government spending for the UAE during the first half of this year reached 161 billion dirhams, compared to revenues of 178 billion dirhams, bringing the combined surplus spending during the same period to 17 billion dirhams.

Yesterday, statistics issued by the Ministry of Finance showed that spending on compensation for workers (i.e. their salaries and benefits) accounted for the largest share of the combined government expenditures, amounting to about 57 billion dirhams, or 35.4%, followed by spending on the use of goods and services at 41 billion dirhams. By 25.5%.

Benefits and subsidies

According to the "financial" data, spending on social benefits ranked third, with a value of 29.4 billion dirhams, equivalent to 18.3% of the total during the first half of 2020.

As for financial aid, its share came in fourth place, with 21.6 billion dirhams, or 13.4%, while the rest of spending is distributed on grants, consumption of fixed capital, and other expenses.

On the revenue side, taxes pumped 58.8 billion dirhams, while the rest came from other revenues and community contributions.

Share data

The Ministry of Finance indicated that the UAE realized from an early age the importance of sharing data and information, and made it available at the governmental and private levels in a way that contributes to enabling its citizens and residents on its land to access everything that supports their participation in the development process, within a philosophy based on understanding the needs of society and achieving the requirements of competitiveness. Globalism.

In this context, the UAE has implemented many informational and service initiatives in the fields of knowledge and publishing, and the definition of facts, statistics and data, and this culminated in obtaining first place in the Middle East and North Africa region, and ranked 26th in the world in the anti-corruption index issued by Transparency International. International, which is the indicator that is designated within its list of standards as a measure of the degree of disclosure, and the obligation to disclose, informational and statistical publication.

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