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11-28-2008, 03:50 PM
President Leonel Fernandez has sent the RD$329 billion National Budget for 2009 to Congress. Listin Diario makes the observation that while in previous years a commission of officials from the government economic team would deliver the bill, this year a messenger was dispatched from the Presidency to deliver the bill to the secretary of the Senate. On 20 November, Hacienda Minister Vicente Bengoa said that government department allotments would be at the same level as last year. An additional RD$29 billion will cover wage and pension increases that were approved in mid 2008 and were covered by surplus taxes collected by the government in 2008.
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