Austerity postpone the premiums F16 Russian tanks .. and alcohol and tobacco taxes to 300%

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27/01/2015 (00:01 pm)   -   the number of readings: 135   -  number (3272)

 

 

Austerity postpone the premiums F16 Russian tanks .. and alcohol and tobacco taxes to 300%

BAGHDAD / Mohammad Sabah 
 

While the Parliamentary Finance Committee is preparing on Tuesday to resolve the release date of the budget vote, the deputies revealed new details of the austerity measures.

He spoke of Representatives a tendency to delay payments aircraft the F16 as well as bargain Russian tanks, and said the retrenchment has led to the provision of 8 trillion dinars from the defense and interior allocations, expecting to impose taxes of up to 300% on cigarettes and alcohol, and 15% on tickets and cards charging mobile.

The Parliamentary Finance Committee confirmed, recently, the presence of an exaggeration "unjustified" in the budget of some ministries and state institutions, and said it was working on a retrenchment in the 2015 budget and the doors to the transfers were scarce funding.

He says Ahmed Hama Rashid, a decision the Parliamentary Finance Committee "long", that "the austerity measures recommended by the Committee will provide funds of up to 8 trillion dinars after reducing the budgets of all ministries and different rates depending on the delete or transfers allocations least important."

He said Rashid said, "These actions include the postponement of payments for decades armament and of buying Russian tanks and aircraft the F-16 the US as well as armament contracts from different countries," stressing that "the real purpose behind these actions is to reduce the budget deficit size." 

In turn confirms MP Masood Haider member of the Finance Committee, said that "the reduction included operational and investment budget and provided additional allocations has Mnaqlthm to rally public and internally displaced persons."

As revealed Haider's "long" that "the total size of the budget will be up to 120 trillion dinars", pointed out that "the overall budget deficit will exceed the 40 trillion dinars," and noted that "austerity measures affected 26 thousand degrees and careers of the total 55 thousand degrees and functional. " 

In the same context, Abdulkadir Mohamed, the other member of the Finance Committee, said that "the decline in world oil prices have a significant impact on the federal budget and hindered legislation setting," he says, pointing out that "falling price of oil, one dollar more than the budget trillion dinars deficit." The attention of Mohammed, in a statement to the "long" to "went inside the parliamentary finance committee to reduce the price of a barrel of oil in order to bridge the shortfall in the budget," adding "to make amendments to the draft budget will contribute to reducing the size of the deficit."

And details about the austerity measures that have taken place on the budget, Mohammed explains, "has been reduced and the Ministries of Defense and Interior's budget by about 5 trillion dinars, by 4 trillion of allocations of the Ministry of Defense and 1 trillion of allocations and the Interior Ministry." And about the fate of the staff of the Ministry of Industry companies, shows a member of the Finance Committee that "the assignment of 600 thousand employees in state-owned companies and all ministries is up to the Council of Ministers", adding that his committee "authorized banks to pay the salaries of all employees of these state-owned companies." Reveals Kurdish MP "postpone payments to deal arming of 24 American tanks and aircraft and missiles," he said, adding "the imposition of taxes on alcohol and cigarettes sales by 300%."

So says MP Jabbar Abdul Khaliq, a member of the Finance Committee, said that "the tax imposed by 15% on sales of cars and tickets and the Kartat Shipping mobile phone sales."

Abdul Khaliq adds, "long", that "the security sector budget includes 31 trillion dinars were some financial payments, including the reduction of armaments contracts."

And put the budget on a date, Abdul Jabbar said the Finance Committee is expected to be resolved at a meeting Tuesday deadline, adding that his committee "will present its final report next Thursday."