The Macao Financial Services Bureau announced that the Central Accounts budget execution data shows that the lucky gambling tax revenue for the first eight months of this year was 58.78 billion Macanese patacas (MOP) (hereinafter), an increase of 50.2% from last year's 39.12 billion yuan, with an execution rate of 70.3%; the regular income within the period was 69.423 billion yuan, an increase of 43.6% from last year's 48.313 billion yuan.

Macao's fiscal surplus for the first 8 months of this year was 11.43 billion yuan, an increase of 1.77 times from last year's 4.127 billion yuan during the same period.