Budget deficit set to be one fifth less than forecast due to higher revenues

"We expect that revenues will be zł.6 billion higher and will amount to over zł.180 billion and thus the deficit will be zł.7 billion lower," said a source of Rzeczpospolita. Better than expected results in the state budget mean that the budget deficit for 2006 will not have to exceed zł.29.7 billion, which is zł.300 million less than anticipated by the Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz from Law and Justice (PiS). "The finance minister has no other choice. He must include a deficit at the level which stems from the regulations. Naturally he should do it by limiting expenditures. It can always be achieved by including additional revenues, but one can never be sure of achieving them," said Janusz Jankowiak. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, B1) M.M.