FRANKFURT AM MAIN: Germany’s federal statistics authority on Friday revised down its reckoning of the country’s government budget surplus in 2017, but the overshoot remained at record levels.

Inflows into federal, state and municipal coffers outweighed spending by 36.6 billion euros ($45.1 billion) in 2017, Destatis said in a statement.

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