Finance Ministry issues gov’t units’ 2017 final financial data

AMMAN — The Finance Ministry on Saturday said it had issued the final statements of the government units for 2017 before the end of the constitutional period in June.

The financial data showed a deficit of JD96.8 million in the budgets of these units, where they recorded JD1.481 billion in revenues and JD1.578 billion in expenditures, including JD1.078 billion as current expenditures and JD500 million as capital expenditures, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, cited a ministry statement as saying.

Article 112/1 of the Constitution stipulates that the government has to present final statements within six months of the end of the previous fiscal year.