{"id":95269,"date":"2017-03-24T00:51:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T04:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=95269"},"modified":"2017-03-24T00:51:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T04:51:16","slug":"phl-posts-php-2-22-b-budget-surplus-in-january-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/24\/phl-posts-php-2-22-b-budget-surplus-in-january-17\/","title":{"rendered":"PHL posts Php 2.22-B budget surplus in January &#8217;17"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_91493\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91493\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/64808_203344153098890_110715714_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-91493\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/64808_203344153098890_110715714_n.jpg\" alt=\"The Philippines posted a budget surplus of Php 2.22 billion in January 2017 after revenues expanded higher than expenditures due to collection reforms.  (Photo: Bureau of the Treasury-Intramuros, Manila\/Facebook)\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/64808_203344153098890_110715714_n.jpg 720w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/64808_203344153098890_110715714_n-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Philippines posted a budget surplus of Php 2.22 billion in January 2017 after revenues expanded higher than expenditures due to collection reforms. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/190486097718029\/photos\/a.203344049765567.32963.190486097718029\/203344153098890\/?type=1&amp;amp;theater\">Bureau of the Treasury-Intramuros, Manila\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2014The Philippines posted a budget surplus of Php 2.22 billion in January 2017 after revenues expanded higher than expenditures due to collection reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Data released by the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) on Thursday showed that revenues rose by 10 percent year-on-year to Php 200.3 billion while expenditures went up seven percent to Php 198.1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Excluding interest payments, the government registered a Php 44.6 billion surplus.<\/p>\n<p>Of the total revenues in the first month this year, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), which collects around 70 percent of taxes, contributed Php 147.4 billion, up 14 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The Bureau of Customs (BOC) shared in Php 35.94 billion, up 16 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Revenues by the BTr reached Php 8 billion, up one percent, while the Other Officers registered a 36 percent contraction on collection after its revenues went down to nearly Php 8 billion.<\/p>\n<p>On government expenditures, interest payments went down by seven percent to Php 42.35 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014The Philippines posted a budget surplus of Php 2.22 billion in January 2017 after revenues expanded higher than expenditures due &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":91493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[15865],"class_list":["post-95269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-bureau-of-the-treasury","mauthors-joann-santiago","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}