Income and Spending Components of Batumi Municipality’s 2020 Budget Decreased by GEL 26,625,600

Batumi Municipality City Council approved draft amendments to the Ordinance on Approving the Batumi Municipality 2020 Budget dated 25 December 2019.

Ivane Machavariani: “Georgia’s budget transparency index is one of the highest.”

Verdict: FactCheck concludes that Ivane Machavariani’s statement is TRUE.

Budget of the Parliament of Georgia was GEL 34 million in 2012, whilst it is planned to have GEL 64 million in 2019, although the salary of the MPs has not been increased

Verdict: FactCheck concludes that Roman Gotsiridze’s statement is HALF TRUE.

The amount of money allocated for concerts was increased by GEL 2 million and the expenses for advertisement increased by GEL 600,000

The budget plan was not fulfilled. The six-month plan of revenues has a deficit of GEL 208 million

The income part of the first quarter of the 2016 budget was fulfilled in surplus

The Government of Georgia is implementing the budget at the expense of increasing taxes. Life has become more expensive for the population, taxes have not been lowered

The 2015 state budget was implemented with excess and this happened thanks to the efforts of the government

We are decreasing administrative expenses by GEL 2 million in 2016. The funds for salary supplements are lowered by 20%

As compared to the currencies of our trade partner countries, GEL depreciated the least against USD

The country’s economy is decreasing whilst bureaucratic expenses are increasing… bureaucratic expenses have increased by GEL 420 million since 2012

The money we spend on healthcare is a direct investment in the economy

In the last three years, the budget of the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs of Abkhazia has increased only by GEL 1,431 whilst the expenses of Abkhazia’s legitimate government have increased by GEL 104,403