8M State budget revenue up 20%

Total State budget revenue reached more than VND1.2 quadrillion ($51.3 billion) in the first eight months of this year, up 19.4 per cent year-on-year and representing 85.6 per cent of the annual estimate. State budget expenditure, meanwhile, stood at VND956.5 trillion ($40.89 billion), for a surplus of nearly VND252 trillion ($10.77 billion); the highest for many months.