The government has calculated that this year's deficit will reach US$600m, or 4% of GDP -one percentage point more than the target set in the monetary plan.
Finance minister Alberto Dent says the cut has been made necessary by the fact that the fiscal contingency law, a temporary scheme which came into effect as congress dealt with the tax reform, has only generated an extra US$100m of revenues.
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