 This drop was largely the result of debt forgiveness of $448.4 million by the United States, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.Scheduled amortization payments of an average $223.2 million per year, however, guaranteed that Honduras's gross funding requirements would remain large indefinitely.The government of Honduras projected that overall tax revenues would increase from 13.2 percent of GDP in 1989 to about 15.7 percent in 1991.