Constitución en Inglés

251 Corte Constitucional de Colombia Chapter III The Budget I n peacetime, it is not permitted to collect levies or taxes that are not included in the budget of revenues or to make payments from Treasury funds that are not included in budgeted expenditures. Neither may any public expenditure be made that has not been decreed by Congress, departmental assemblies, or district or municipal councils, or any credit transferred that is not projected in the respective budget. The Government shall formulate annually the Revenues Budget and Appropriations Law, which shall be presented to Congress within the first ten days of each legislature. The Revenues Budget and Appropriations Law must be drafted, presented, and approved within a framework of fiscal sustainability and be in conformity with the National Development Plan. In the Appropriations Law, no part whatsoever may be included that does not correspond to a legally recognized credit or an expenditure decreed in accordance with an earlier law, or an expenditure proposed by the Government to duly cover the functioning of the branches of government, or the servicing of a debt, or fulfillment of the National Development Plan. ARTICLE 345 ARTICLE 346