The government’s recorded net revenue collection in the first seven months of this fiscal year (October 2018 till April 2019) totalled Bt1.34 trillion, up 3.4 per cent from the same period of last year, Fiscal Policy Office director-general and spokesperson for the Finance Ministry, Lavaron Sangsnit, said yesterday.

He added that this was above the early target of 2.7 per cent. The bump was mainly the result of revenue collection from other agencies, and from the Revenue Department, remittances from state-owned enterprises and revenue collection from Customs Department. The collections exceeded targets by Bt34.77 billion, Bt22.23 billion, Bt20.98 billion, and Bt6.02 billion – or 35.5 per cent, 2.4 per cent, 19.7 per cent, and 10.3 per cent – respectively.