Jean-Jacques Valentin, the Director General of the General Administration of Customs, has announced this week, that the customs revenues, for the last 10 months (October 2010 - July 2011) are up, to 19 billion gourdes (1 USD = ± 40 gourdes).

Tax revenues reaching just over 85% of the 22 billion gourds provided by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, to the State budget for the current year.

Jean-Jacques Valentin, was visibly satisfied with the results, and he wished to clarify that for the first two weeks of August, his institution had already collected one billion gourds additional.

HL/ HaitiLibre