Colombian tax revenue was down 0.4% in the first four month of 2010 compared with the same period a year earlier, according to national tax agency DIAN, reports the Wall Street Journal.
From January to the sart of April of this year, the government collected COP22.3 trillion, down from COP22.4 trillion in 2009.
Despite the decline in the first third of the year, the Colombian government expects tax collection in 2010 to be COP69.7 trillion, an increase on the COP68.9 trillion collected in 2009.