THE government incurred a budget surplus of P86.9 billion in April as state spending contracted amid a marginal growth in revenues, the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) said on Friday, attributing the latest data to the delayed 2019 outlay.

Last month’s amount was a reversal of the P58.409-billion deficit posted in March, and was also higher than the P46.315-billion surplus recorded a year earlier.

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