UK government borrowing falls as recovery helps tax take By Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - British public borrowing fell in May from sky-high levels of a year earlier when the government was ramping up a huge spending response to the coronavirus crisis, and there are signs that the recent recovery in the economy was boosting tax revenues. Borrowing excluding public sector banks totalled 24.3 billion pounds ($33.8 billion) in May, down from 43.8 billion pounds in the same month in 2020, the Office for National Statistics said. Economists polled by Reuters had on average expected a shortfall of 26.0 billion pounds. The May figure took the deficit for...
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