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Every figure here is transcribed from the official budget and machine-verified to reconcile to the guilder — 20 automated checks run on each build. Download any table, or print the page to PDF.

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Every figure is machine-verified to reconcile with the official budget — 20 automated checks run on each build (per-ministry revenue sums to Cg 647M, cost-category totals per ministry, etc.).

Revenue by category

Category	2024	2025	2026	Share
Taxes	Cg 414M	Cg 453M	Cg 478M	73.9%
Licenses / Permits	Cg 13M	Cg 24M	Cg 16M	2.5%
Fees & concessions	Cg 39M	Cg 66M	Cg 62M	9.6%
Other revenue	Cg 24M	Cg 43M	Cg 91M	14.1%
Total	Cg 490M	Cg 586M	Cg 647M	100%

Spending by ministry & area

Code	Area	Spending 2026	Revenue 2026	Share	Staffed
ECYS	Education, Culture, Youth & Sport	Cg 126M	Cg 6.4M	21%	81%
JUS	Justice	Cg 114M	Cg 25.4M	19%	54%
VSOA	Public Health, Social Development & Labor	Cg 109M	Cg 14M	18%	74%
FIN	Finance	Cg 91M	Cg 501.1M	15%	64%
AZ	General Affairs	Cg 90M	Cg 11.5M	15%	57%
TEATT	Tourism, Economic Affairs, Transport & Telecom	Cg 41M	Cg 66.2M	7%	72%
VROMI	Housing, Spatial Planning, Environment & Infrastructure	Cg 37M	Cg 22.5M	6%	63%
PARL	Parliament & High Councils	Cg 22M	—	—	—
BE	Special Entities	Cg 7M	—	—	—
	Country total	Cg 637M	Cg 647M

Spending by cost category

Code	Category	2024	2025	2026
41	Personnel costs	Cg 218M	Cg 258M	Cg 279M
43	Material costs, goods & services	Cg 113M	Cg 130M	Cg 169M
44	Transfers and subsidies	Cg 105M	Cg 109M	Cg 108M
47	Social provisions	Cg 29M	Cg 36M	Cg 36M
45	Interest	Cg 23M	Cg 26M	Cg 26M
42	Depreciation costs	Cg 15M	Cg 15M	Cg 15M
48	Scholarships and allowances	Cg 4M	Cg 3M	Cg 4M
	Total	Cg 507M	Cg 577M	Cg 637M

Multi-year outlook 2026–2029

Year	Revenue	Expenditure	Result
2026	Cg 647M	Cg 637M	Cg +10M
2027	Cg 642M	Cg 634M	Cg +8M
2028	Cg 639M	Cg 624M	Cg +15M
2029	Cg 657M	Cg 640M	Cg +17M

Reference

Acronyms used on this page

Ministry codes come from the budget itself; other definitions are sourced from the explanatory notes and project docs.

ECYSEducation, Culture, Youth & Sport

JUSJustice

VSOAPublic Health, Social Development & Labor

FINFinance

AZGeneral Affairs

TEATTTourism, Economic Affairs, Transport & Telecom

VROMIHousing, Spatial Planning, Environment & Infrastructure

PARLParliament & High Councils

BESpecial Entities

NDVNational Development Vision 2020–2030 — Sint Maarten's long-term policy framework; ministry objectives are tagged to NDV goals.

SDGSustainable Development Goals — UN goals used alongside the NDV to tag policy objectives.

TWONetherlands financing vehicle funding Country Package (landspakket) reform projects across ministries.

CBCSCentral Bank of Curaçao & Sint Maarten — source of macro projections shown alongside the IMF.

IMFInternational Monetary Fund — alternative source for growth, inflation and debt-to-GDP projections.

GEBEState-owned electricity & water utility; recurring line item in VROMI capital expenditure.

SZVSint Maarten's social & health insurance fund; recipient of the BZV health-insurance premium (~Cg 38.8M/yr).

BZVBasisverzekering Ziektekosten — the compulsory health-insurance premium paid annually to SZV.

Source: Explanatory Notes Budget Sint Maarten 2026 (Landsverordening begroting 2026). Amounts in millions of Cg. Full page-cited reference in the project's docs/budget-facts.md. Where the official document contains a rounding or typo (e.g. the "1126" printed for ECYS 2027), we correct it and note it. Free liquidity is projected to fall −7M despite the Cg +10MM paper surplus.