Canada budget deficit over first nine months of 2024/25 at C$21.72 billion
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FILE PHOTO: A hockey puck with the Canadian flag is seen at a National Flag of Canada Day ceremony, one day before the official observance of Flag Day, on the Rideau Canal Skateway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, February 14, 2025. REUTERS/Patrick Doyle/File
OTTAWA, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Canada recorded a slight drop in its budget deficit to C$21.72 billion ($15.05 billion) for the first nine months of the 2024/25 fiscal year as government revenues increased faster than expenditure, the finance ministry said on Friday.
By comparison, the deficit in the same period a year earlier had been C$23.61 billion, it said in a statement.
Program expenses rose 10.7% on increases across all major categories of spending for the nine months. Public debt charges increased by 17.3% largely because of higher interest rates, the ministry said.
Year-to-date revenues grew by 11.8%, largely reflecting higher tax revenues and from other taxes and duties.
On a monthly basis, Canada's budgetary balance in December swung to a surplus of $1 billion, from a deficit of C$4.47 billion in same month the prior year.
($1 = 1.4432 Canadian dollars)
(Reporting by Promit Mukherjee, editing by Fergal Smith)
((Reuters Ottawa bureau; [email protected]))
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