While the truth will be determined at the beginning of February, it can already be seen that there will be a shortage of €40-50 million compared to the €276.4 million included in last year's state budget, the paper said.

It is likely that last summer's significantly reduced estimation of €237.5 million will not be fulfilled either.

Slightly more is paid into the state budget in the form of excise duty on alcohol each year, and the increases have averaged around €14 million annually since 2010. 2017, however, will likely be the first year in more than a decade during which the inflow of excise duty on alcohol will be smaller than the year before.

While a total of €251 million in alcohol excise duty was paid into the budget in 2016, the same figure in 2017 is likely to be closer in size to the 2015 total of €222 million.