The ministry said the domestic collection duringJanuary-July hit 744 trillion VND, 65.6 percent of the estimate and increasingby 12.9 percent year-on-year.
Meanwhile, state budget spending was estimated at 810.6trillion VND during the period, equal to 48 percent of the estimate.
A total of 4.2 trillion VND from the central budget and nearly2.4 trillion VND from local budgets were channeled into the fight against COVID-19 prevention andcontrol./.