{"id":674809,"date":"2025-11-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2025\/11\/04\/budget-deficit-widens-to-2-5-of-gdp-in-1q-fy-2025-2026\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T00:00:00","slug":"budget-deficit-widens-to-2-5-of-gdp-in-1q-fy-2025-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2025\/11\/04\/budget-deficit-widens-to-2-5-of-gdp-in-1q-fy-2025-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget deficit widens to 2.5% of GDP in 1Q FY 2025-2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"> <strong>The country\u2019s budget deficit widened to 2.5% of GDP during the first quarter <\/strong><strong>of the current fiscal year<\/strong>, up from 2.1% during the same period last year, according to a Finance Ministry report seen by EnterpriseAM.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\">(<strong>Tap or click the headline above to read this story with all of the links <\/strong>to our background as well as external sources.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Primary surplus jumps:<\/strong> The primary surplus \u2014 which excludes interest payments \u2014 nearly doubled y-o-y to EGP 178 bn, equivalent to 0.9% of GDP. The ministry attributed the improvement to stronger tax revenues and greater fiscal discipline.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>REMEMBER-<\/strong> The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/34ccc1e0-b104-4cf1-a9f7-903d3403cd70\/next-fiscal-year%25e2%2580%2599s-government-budget-pencils-in-23.0%2525-jump-in-revenues,-19.2%2525-rise-in-expenditures?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">FY 2025-26 budget<\/a> pencils in a 4.0% primary surplus, up from 3.5% last fiscal year. The budget also sees the overall deficit narrowing to 7.3% of GDP, from last year\u2019s 7.6%, before falling further to 5.5% in FY 2026-27.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Total revenues rose to EGP 644.9 bn during the quarter<\/strong>, up 37.2% y-o-y, supported by a 37% rise in tax revenues to EGP 556.2 bn amid an improved relationship with the business community, according to the report. The state budget penciled in a 23% y-o-y jump in public revenues to EGP 3.1 tn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Interest payments remain the biggest burden:<\/strong> Despite the revenue growth outpacing expectations, spending surged 39.1% y-o-y to EGP 1.2 tn during the three-month period. Interest payments accounted for the lion\u2019s share with EGP 695.2 bn. For the entire fiscal year, interest spending is expected to make up over half of total expected spending, at EGP 2.3 tn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The primary surplus rose to EGP 178 bn during the quarter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":674810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7206],"tags":[279,104,72,276],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-674809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-budget-watch","tag-economy","tag-enterpriseam","tag-finance-ministry","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"b10b8293-2d8d-4b27-9cc6-9bc5340dba96","order":"6","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2025\/1\/1760.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Egypt\u2019s budget deficit widens to 2.5% of GDP in 1Q FY 2025-2026","related_issue":[674799],"teaser":"The primary surplus rose to EGP 178 bn during the quarter","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2025\/11\/.801de17c-da15-4d2e-bb2c-24b602817e45.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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