The Bank of Italy said Wednesday that Italy's public debt dropped to 2.1847 trillion euros in August, down 15.5 billion euros on the previous month.
The central bank said the national debt rose by 48.8 billion euros in the first eight months of 2015. It added that tax revenues in August stood at 33.7 billion euros, up 1.2 billion with respect to August 2014. The bank said tax revenues amounted to 258.7 billion euros for the January-August period, up 0.8% on the 256.6 billion collected in the same period in 2014.
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