Astana. July 30. Kazakhstan Today - Kazakhstan state budget for 2008 has been executed in the first half of 2008 by 52 % of the annual plan. The Minister of Finance, Bolat Zhamishev, informed today during the ministry meeting, the agency reports. "Execution of the budget is at the level of 52 % of the annual plan, including under the republican budget - by 49.9 %. We believe that the budget will be executed because the main part of receipts of the republican budget is received in the end of the year," B. Zhamishev said. "As for local budgets, execution for the first half of 2008 makes 57 % of the annual plan," he noted. "As a whole, local budgets will realize the annual revenue plan," the Minister of Finance considers.