Issue link: https://maltatoday.uberflip.com/i/1482987
maltatoday | SUNDAY • 30 OCTOBER 2022 8 BUDGET2023 INCOME Income tax: €2.3 billion (+€400m) VAT: €1.4 billion (+€100m) Citizenship sale (IIP): €21 million (-€9m) Cigarettes excise duty: €95 million (+€1m) Tobacco: €8.2 million (+€200,000) Beer excise duty: €3.3 million (-€1.5m) Spirits excise duty: €14 million (-€2.5m) Wines excise duty: €2.2 million (-€800,000) Petroleum excise duty: €130 million (-€25m) Mobile telephony excise duty: €4.5 million (-€500,000) Cement excise duty: €26 million (+€2m) Swimming pools permits: €150,000 (NC) Central Bank net profit: €33 million (+€14.6m) Auctioning of Emission Trading Units: €40 million (+€10m) Interest received from loan to Greece: €270,000 (NC) Money raised through local loans (government stock): €1.6 billion (+€400m) Sale of graves: €150,000 (-€5.3m) Gaming taxes: €77 million (+€2m) Driving licences: €2.3 million (-€500,000) Car registration tax: €30 million (-€10 million) Annual road licence fees: €85 million (+€3 million) Students Gozo students studying in Malta: €1.5 million (-€100,000) Accomodation for Gozitan students in Malta: €200,000 (€-400,000) Stipends to ITS: €850,000 (+€100,000) Students' maintenance grants (stipends): €33 million (+€200,000) Children Free childcare: €36 million (+€5m) Klabb 3-16/SkolaSajf: €9 million (NC) Breakfast club in schools: €1.2 million (NC) Children's Allowance: €49 million (+€4.5m) Pensioners and elderly Residential care in private homes: €49 million (+€1.5m) Home for the elderly: €7.4 million (NC) Retirement pensions: €753.7 million (+€62.7m) Transport subsidies PSO maritime transportation: €400,000 (NC) PSO inter-island transportation: €16.8 million (+€6.8m) PSO public transport: €40 million (+€2m) Tal-Linja card: €14 million (+€5.4m) Operation of Gozo P&R: €350,000 (+€150,000) Energy subsidies Gas stabilisation fund: €15 million (new) Energy support measures: €580 million (new) Eco reduction: €7.9 million (+€400,000) Feed in tariff: €23 million (-€1m) Car schemes Scrappage scheme: €300,000 (-€200,000) Scrappage scheme to purchase motor cycle: €1.3 million (+€1m) Grant for electric vehicles: €8.7 million (+€5.2m) Grant for wheelchair accessible vehicles: €150,000 (NC) Roads and projects (capital investment) Road construction/ improvements: €90 million (+€15m) Gozo airfield regeneration: €100,000 (NC) ITS campus Smart City: €100,000 (New) Upgrading Malta Film Facilities: €3 million (NC) Marsaskala water polo pitch: €1 million (-€500,000) Msida football ground: €300,000 (-€700,000) Shooting range: €100,000 (-€150,000) Grandmasters Palace regeneration project: €6 million (+€5m) Xrobb l-Għaġin megalithic temple rescue: €200,000 (NC) Upgrading of roads in industrial estates: €800,000 (-€200,000) Green projects (capital spending unless stated otherwise) Maintenance of public gardens (recurrent): €500,000 (-€1m) Management of M'skala Family Park (recurrent): €480,000 (NC) Maintenance Ta' Qali National Park (recurrent): €250,000 (New) Ta' Qali National Park (capital): €13 million (+€3m) Inwadar National Park: €400,000 (-€2.6m) Urban greening: €10 million (new) Regeneration of recreational areas: €250,000 (-€150,000) Upgrading of parks and public gardens: €800,000 (-€200,000) Valley management: €400,000 (-€200,000) Waste management: €24 million (-€9 million) Electric car charging pillars infrastructure: €1 million (NC) Health New medicines: €14 million (+€2m) Medicines and surgical materials: €150 million (NC) Remote patient monitoring: €1.8 million (+€860,000) POYC: €20.5 million (+€7.3m) Steward concession Gozo Hospital: €50.4 million (+€4.4m) Steward concession Karin Grech Hospital: €29.2 million (+€6.2m) Mental health services: €65.5 million (+€4.2m) Education ITS: €7.5 million (+€780,000) Junior College: €10.5 million (NC) MCAST: €41.1 million (+€800,000) University of Malta: €91 million (+€1.7m) Church schools: €112 million (-€251,000) University of Malta academic research fund: €1.2 million (NC) LSEs in private schools: €7 million (+€2.3m) Assistance to Mariam Albatool School: €400,000 (New) Space research fund (MCST): €450,000 (+€15,000) Educator wages and allowances: €286.9 million (+€17.6m) Extension school transport network: €54 million (+€15m) Entities Wild Birds Regulation Unit: €1 million (+€150,000) Gozo Regional Development Authority: €720,000 (+€20,000) Detention service: €10 million (-€2m) Correctional Services Agency: €28.5 million (+€2m) Agency for Welfare of Asylum Seekers: €13.1 million (+€1.1m) Cannabis authority: €200,000 (New) Malta Film Commission: €1.6 million (+€100,000) Malta Tourism Authority: €119.5 million (+€11.5m) Malta Enterprise: €10 million (+€1.7m) Environment and Resources Authority: €14.7 million (-€500,000) Water Services Corporation: €16.5 million (NC) Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit: €11.5 million (+€600,000) Malta Financial Services Authority: €17.5 million (-€500,000) EquestriMalta: €600,000 (NC) Sports Integrity Authority: €900,000 (+€300,000) Building and Construction Authority: €5 million (NC) OHSA: €1.5 million (+€100,000) Valletta Cultural Agency: €3.6 million (NC) Disciplined forces AFM recurrent expenditure: €68.9 million (-€300,000) AFM capital expenditure: €5.5 million (-€8m) Police recurrent expenditure: €85.6 million (-€700,000) Police capital expenditure: €5 million (NC) Civil Protection recurrent expenditure: €10.8 million (+€200,000) Civil Protection capital expenditure: €6 million (-€2.5m) Special events EuroPride Parade 2023: €2.5 million (New) GSSE Games 2023: €1 million (-€223,000) Education campaigns/ national strategies Cannabis educational reform: €400,000 (NC) Anti-tax evasion awareness campaign: €100,000 (+€40,000) National Dementia Strategy: €200,000 (NC) Strategy on Obesity: €80,000 (NC) Sexual Health Policy: €50,000 (NC) National Diabetes Strategy: €4.5 million (+€4.4m) Cat neutering campaign: €50,000 (-€75,000) Other Air Malta restructuring assistance: €65 million (NC) European Peace Facility: €776,000 (+€526,000) Temporary price stabilization schemes (Agriculture Ministry): €8 million (new) First-time home buyers grant: €3 million (new) Personal assistance scheme for persons with a disability: €2.1 million (+€700,000) Land reclamation studies: €500,000 (New) EXPENDITURE