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This surplus, which takes into account a positive balance of 59 MDH, released by the special accounts and the annexed budgets, is intended to cover the expenses incurred and to be paid during this year, indicates the TGR in its Monthly Bulletin Local Finance Statistics (BMSFL) February.
With regard to the ordinary receipts of the CTs, they amounted to 4.6 billion dirhams, up 24.3% compared to the end of February 2022, due to the 26.9% increase in transferred receipts, from 20. 6% of revenue managed by the State and 21% of revenue managed by CTs.
The distribution of receipts from the main CT budgets by region shows a high concentration at the level of six regions with 73.6% of these receipts, notes the TGR.
The receipts of the region of Casablanca-Settat (914 MDH) represent 20% of the total receipts of the CTs. The Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region comes second with 12.1% of receipts, followed by those of the Dakhla-Oued Ed Dahab region which represent 1.1%.
At the same time, the TGR informs that the overall expenses incurred by the CTs (ordinary expenses, investment expenses and repayments of the principal of the debt) amounted to more than 2.4 MDH, up 9.5% compared to at their level at the end of February 2022 and are made up of 92.7% of ordinary expenses.
At the end of February 2023, the ordinary expenditure of the CTs reached 2.2 billion DH, an increase of 6.2% due to the increase of 51.9% in the expenditure of other goods and services and of 66.7% debt interest charges, combined with the 1.2% drop in personnel expenses.
The investment expenditure of the CTs amounted to 82 MDH at the end of February 2023, against 25 MDH at the end of February 2022, an increase of 228% (+57 MDH). This increase is explained in particular by the increase in emissions under national programs (+48 MDH) and subsidies (+12 MDH).
The distribution of CT expenditures by region shows a strong concentration at the level of six regions with 71.3% of these expenditures. The expenses of Casablanca-Settat (404 MDH) represent 17.8% of overall expenses, while those of Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab constitute 0.9% of the total.
In addition, the bulletin highlights overall surpluses of 48.9 billion MAD generated by the budgets of the CTs which include the surpluses of previous years and that of the year 2023 (2.36 billion MAD).
These surpluses are intended to cover expenses scheduled and committed or scheduled, for previous years and not paid, as well as expenses incurred in 2023 and not paid.
The communes intervene for 52.4% of the overall surpluses of the CTs, notes the same source.