The Slovak central state budget showed a deficit of 31.68 billion crowns ($1.21 billion) for the full year 2006, well below the approved deficit ceiling of 57.47 billion crowns, the finance ministry said on Tuesday. CENTRAL STATE BUDGET JAN-DEC 06 JAN-DEC 05 FY 2006 PLAN (SKK bln) revenues 291.977 258.694 272.717 expenditure 323.655 292.580 330.185 balance -31.678 -33.886 -57.468 (Reporting by Peter Laca and Martin Santa in Bratislava) ((Editing by Alan Crosby; RM: martin.santa.reuters.com@reuters.net; Email: martin.santa@reuters.com; +421-2-5341-8402)) ($1=26.18 Slovak Crown) Keywords: SLOVAKIA BUDGET/
[Reuters/Finance.cz]