31.   The Finance Ministry will answer for taxation and other budget revenues, while the Economy Ministry will be put in charge of planning and regional economic policies.

32.   The former Soviet republic has consistently failed to implement reforms needed to increase budget revenues and allow financing of social programs.

33.   The lawmakers demanded increased budget revenues and more spending on education, health, and social subsidies.

34.   The order, published Tuesday, is part of a package of painful emergency measures aimed at reversing an unprecedented plunge in budget revenues.

35.   The new austerity program calls for enforced tax collection from oil companies, which provide a large share of budget revenues.

36.   Various subsidies absorb one-fifth of all budget revenues, Kuchma said.

37.   In recent years the government has overestimated budget revenue, and this year it found itself short of cash to pay pension and salary arrears and debts to creditors.

38.   Interfax said Yeltsin and his prime minister also discussed draft decrees on stimulating economic reform, and the need for boosting government budget revenue.

39.   Chubais said a special department to handle budget revenue would be created within the finance ministry.

40.   The oil industry is the most critical economic sector in Iran with crude exports generating the main source of hard currency and budget revenues.