Over the past two years, the central government’s budgetary operations have registered overall surpluses averaging 1.8 percent of GDP. These surpluses have permitted transfers to the interim Revenue Stabilisation Fund amounting to $ million in the two-year period.
Figure 7 Government Expenditure (Per cent of GDP) (  )  1999/ 2000  2000/ 2001  2001/ 2002  2002/ 2003  2003/ 2004  Current Expenditure  21.2  22.1  24.5  22.7  24.4  Wages & Salaries  6.1  6.9  7.6  6.9  6.7  Goods & Services  2.3  2.8  3.2  3.0  3.3  Interest  5.0  4.2  4.4  3.8  3.3  Transfers & Subsidies  7.7  8.3  9.4  9.0  11.0  2.3  1.7  1.2  1.2  2.2  Capital Expenditure and Net lending  If we look at Figure 6 we see that tax collections from the energy sector in terms of GDP will have doubled between FY 2002 and the current budget year.