Finance Minister to present interim 2013 budget in October

The Finance Minister, Dr. Kwabena Duffour will present a provisional 2013 budget to parliament possibly in October.

The estimates will cover only the first quarter of next year.

Finance Minister, Dr. Duffour explains to JOY-BUSINESS this would only be a temporary budget to ensure that government business does not grind to a halt in 2013.

“Anytime we go into elections we prepare provisional estimates of the first 3 months of the year for parliament to approve and then the new government will prepared the full budget” he noted.

Source : myjoyonline

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