The Medina administration has successfully met its budgeted totals, but a report in El Caribe warns that key taxation areas show there are problems. For the first five months of the year taxation reached RD$175 billion for a 102.3% budget compliance. But the main tax on sales (ITBIS), that should contribute 25% of all taxation revenues, underperformed with a 97.5% in its domestic component. The ITBIS levied in Customs reported a 105% level of compliance. The government had also estimated RD$20.3 billion in the fuel tax, but only secured RD$19.2 billion in the first five months of the year. Despite the increasingly higher cost of fuel, taxation for Law 112-00 was 93.5% and 97% for Law 557-05 for hydrocarbons.