WITH stronger than expected economic growth in 2007, the Government expects the overall budget Balance to be a surplus of S$6.4bil (RM14.6bil) for financial year 2007, compared to the deficit of S$0.7bil (RM1.6bil) that was originally projected.
Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said this in his opening Budget statement in parliament on Thursday.
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