Unpaid expenses from past periods totaling 4.068 billion leva have been transferred to the current year and must be provided for when preparing the 2025 budget.
This became known from the words of the Minister of Finance Temenuzhka Petkova during a hearing in the National Assembly, BTA reports.
Petkova presented the information available at that time on invoiced expenses, expenses for which invoices have not been issued, but there are certificates for activities carried out, expenses related to signed agreements for the deferral of obligations from previous years, which ministries and departments have submitted to the Ministry of Finance.
According to the data, the expenses incurred in 2024, for which invoices have been issued but have not been paid, amount to 1.080 billion. leva.
The activities that were carried out in 2024, for which certificates of work performed were issued, but invoices were not issued, as the contractors were told that there were no necessary resources and it was better not to issue these invoices, amount to 1.630 billion leva, Petkova said.
The signed agreements for the deferral of expenses that were signed in recent years, including interest expenses, litigation expenses, compensation expenses, amount to 913 million leva.
The formed deficit of the "Energy System Security" Fund has in practice been transferred to 2025 and amounts to 444 million. leva, said Petkova.
"The entire burden of the 2024 budget as invoiced expenses, expenses for which invoices have not been issued, but there are certificates for completed activities, expenses related to signed agreements for the deferral of obligations from previous years, amount to a total of 4.068 billion leva", said Petkova.
"This is the bill that the 2025 budget must pay from 2024. This is practically the picture that we have at the moment submitted to us by ministries, departments, municipalities", said the Minister of Finance.