IMF: 2018 Iraqi draft budget won't 'cover the needs' of Kurdistan

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Parliamentary Finance: The government delayed the sending of the draft budget of 2018 and must stop foreign borrowing for this reason Policy access_time 2017/10/21 14:35  Number of readings: 135 Baghdad today: The decision of the Parliamentary Finance Committee Ahmed Hama, on Saturday, the government to stop foreign borrowing, warning of the repercussions of economic, "serious", may pass the country as a result of those loans. "At a time when Iraq and the whole region are going through a political crisis that is about to hit the peace of society in line with this political crisis, the economic crisis is more serious and ordered," said parliamentary financial committee commissioner Ahmed Hama. The most countries in the region are indebted and is still looking for countries and institutions to owe them the burden of the Iraqi citizen debt is useless, and most of it goes to the direction of consumer spending, which researchers and academics in the economic field that the debt deferred tax paid by future generations. He called on the political elites and people's deputies to "pressure the federal government not to resort to loans and increased indebtedness and the trend towards multiple revenues and austerity," noting that "according to time schedules, the date of arrival of the budget in the law of financial management and public debt is (10/10) Therefore, the government has been delayed in sending the budget bill to the House of Representatives so far. " He called on the federal government to "speed up the preparation of the project in the final form and send it to the House of Representatives to decide on the fact that any delay leads to the disruption of plans and programs," stressing "the need of the federal government's commitment to its constitutional responsibility and legal ethics of the salaries of regional employees through advance advances, especially airports and border crossings The oil wells are under the authority of the federal government and the provincial government is completely unable to pay the salaries of employees. "

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Deputy demands the government to expedite the sending of the budget of 2018 to parliament

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The head of the parliamentary bloc of the Islamic Group MP Ahmad Haji Rashid on Sunday called on the government to speed up the preparation of the draft budget for 2018 and send it to the House of Representatives.

 

"As Iraq and the whole region are going through a political crisis that is about to hit the social peace in line with this political crisis, the economic crisis is worse," Rashid said in a statement received by Al-Ghad Press. "Iraq is one of the most indebted countries in the region and is still looking for countries and institutions to pay for it. The burden of the Iraqi citizen debt is useless and most goes to the direction of consumer spending, which the researchers and academics in the economic field that these debts deferred tax paid by future generations.

He added, "From this perspective and a sense of our responsibilities towards our people, I would like to direct this speech to the political elites and the people's deputies by pressing the federal government not to resort to loans and increase indebtedness and the trend towards multiple revenues and austerity."

"According to the timing, the date of the arrival of the budget in the law of financial management and public debt is 10/10 per year, the government has been delayed in sending the budget bill to the House of Representatives so far more than (10) days so we ask the government to accelerate To prepare the project in the final form and send it to the House of Representatives to decide it because any delay leads to the disruption of plans and programs, on the other hand, we ask the federal government to abide by his constitutional and legal and moral responsibilities to pay the salaries of regional staff through advance advances, especially airports and border crossings and oil wells under the authority of The federal state and the government of the province is completely unable to pay their salaries and commitment to his duties towards them. "

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Parliamentary Finance: The government delayed delivery of the draft budget 2018

Release date: 2017/10/22 23:04 • 68 times read

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A member of the Finance Committee parliamentary, the government delayed the submission of the draft law of the state budget for the year 2018.

"At a time when Iraq and the whole region are going through a political crisis that is almost subduing social peace in line with this political crisis, the economic crisis is worse and worse," committee member Ahmad al-Haj Rashid said in a statement. 
He added that "Iraq is one of the most indebted countries in the region and is still looking for countries and institutions to pay them to burden the Iraqi citizen with debt is useless and most goes to the direction of consumer spending, which see researchers and academics in the economic field that these debts deferred tax paid by future generations. 
Rachid pointed out that "from this point of view and a sense of our responsibilities towards our people, I draw this speech to the political elites and the people's deputies to pressure the federal government not to resort to loans and increased indebtedness and the trend towards multiple revenues and austerity."
He pointed out that "according to the timing of the date of arrival of the budget in the law of financial management and public debt is 10 of October each year, the government has been delayed in the draft budget bill to the House of Representatives so far more than 10 days," demanding "the government to accelerate the preparation Project in the final form and send it to the House of Representatives to decide it because any delay leads to the disruption of plans and programs. " 
"The federal government is committed to its constitutional, legal and moral responsibilities to pay the salaries of the region's employees through advance advances, especially the airports and border crossings and oil wells are under the authority of the federal state. 
The Cabinet announced in its discussions of the financial budget for 2018, the adoption of the budget to reduce expenditures significantly.

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Parliamentary services reveal to / Mawazin News / allocation of funds for the reconstruction of areas liberated by the budget of 2018

 

 Since 2017-10-22 at 19:41 (Baghdad time)

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A member of the Parliamentary Services Committee Sabah al-Tamimi, on Sunday, the allocation of funds and grants and loans in the budget of 2018, for the reconstruction of areas liberated from the control of the organization calling the terrorist.

Al-Tamimi told Mawazine News that the Parliamentary Services Committee is working in full swing in the field of legislation and supervision. "There are sluggish projects and projects that should be implemented for their own needs in the liberated areas, which must be reconstructed, such as Mosul, Anbar, "He said.

She stressed that "the budget of 2018 includes financial allocations, and a lot of grants and loans, which have been allocated a large part of the reconstruction of liberated areas."

Most of the cities, which were controlled by the terrorist organization, witnessed a great deal of destruction in the infrastructure, because the criminal organization deliberately used the policy of the scorched earth through booby-trapped houses, planting roads with explosive devices, burning wells and destroying archaeological sites and other atrocities.

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Parliamentary Finance Committee: The salaries of Kurdish employees are insured

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Parliamentary Finance Committee, confirmed on Monday, to secure the salaries of employees of northern Iraq, indicating that it has formed a committee of Kurdish deputies to discuss the salaries of the region.
Tamimi said in a statement that the central government will secure the salaries of the province within the budget of 2018, especially after the control of the oil fields in the province of Kirkuk.
Tamimi added that the committee in need of lists of Kurdish employees in order to secure their salaries in full according to the salary scale approved by the central government.
Regarding the crisis in the center and the region, al-Tamimi said that it is going to release, denying at the same time the existence of economic sanctions imposed by the central government on the Kurdistan Regional Government.

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SULAIMANI PROVINCIAL COUNCIL GIVES KRG 15 DAYS TO SEND EMPLOYEES’ SALARY

Iraq, October 25, 2017  Sulaimani Provincial Council has given the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) only 15 days to send the salary of the province’s employees, likewise, it would discuss with Baghdad regarding the issue. Following an emergency meeting of the council’s members, the head of Sulaimani Provincial Council, Azad Hama Amin, said during a press conference that the KRG’s programs have not included taking care of the livelihoods of the people. The council has directed several requests to the KRG, Amin added. “We will use our legal rights to begin talks with the central government if [the KRG] does not respond to our requests.” The head of the council also called on the Iraqi government to provide the province with fuel, saying the KRG has failed to provide the province with fuel after Sulaimani Provincial Council requested it from the Kurdish government in Erbil several times. Hama Amin urged the KRG to start talks with the Iraqi government according to the constitution. In February 2016, KRG cut government employee salaries by 15 to 75 percent, depending on position and salary bracket, as part of austerity measures to deal with the ongoing economic crisis. The KRG’s aim in cutting the salaries of employees, excluding Peshmerga forces fighting the Islamic State (ISIS), security forces and judges, was to reduce expenditures and increase revenue in the region. nrttv   http://iraqdailyjournal.com/story-z16107058

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• Parliamentary Finance Committee: Cabinet discussed the issue of reducing the salaries of state employees

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The Finance Committee of the parliamentary on Friday, the Cabinet discussed the proposal to reduce the salaries of state employees in the budget of 2018.
“The Iraqi Council of Ministers discussed the proposal to reduce the salaries of state employees in the budget of 2018,” said member of the Committee Hossam al-Aqabi in a statement to the media.
He added that “the draft general budget delayed the Council of Ministers sent to Parliament and came out of the constitutional date, which was scheduled to be sent mid-month, to ratify it, but the reduction of public expenditure and the International Monetary Fund and the problem of the region were the reasons for delay in reaching parliament.”
He pointed out that “the budget of the Kurdistan region will be recalculated in addition to counting the expenses and revenues of the region again.”
He pointed out that “the proposal to reduce salaries of state employees has been put in the Council of Ministers and will be rejected in parliament in the event of deductions for salaries of employees,” pointing out that “deductions at the moment is appropriate unless good services are provided to the citizen.”
Al-‘Aqabi expressed his belief that “a reduction in the high salaries of employees will be made, but it will also be challenged within parliament.” He said.

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Parliamentary finance: trillion and half trillion worth of budget deficit in August 2017

Release date: 2017/10/28 20:51 • 480 times read

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a member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee revealed that 46,619 trillion dinars, is the total amounts funded for the current and investment budgets for the period from 2017/1/1 to 2017/8/31.

The committee member Majida al-Tamimi said in a statement today, "The share of the current budget of 41,232 and by 88.45% ؜ while the total revenue 43,591 trillion dinars, the oil revenues, including 81,654% ؜ and 35,594 trillion Dinars, including the rounds of licenses in the amount of 3,686 trillion dinars. 
"The total amount funded for the current and investment budgets during the month of August amounted to 8,585 trillion dinars, and the proportion of salaries funded for all segments of ordinary salaries, retirees and civilians and thresholds 57,344% ؜ by 4,923 trillion dinars with the achievement of oil and non-oil revenues by 6, 062 trillion dinars, which means achieving a deficit during the month of August 2017 of 2,522 trillion dinars by 29,376% ؜ ".
Tamimi said that "this situation requires moving in accordance with the tracks of the first track towards the amendment of laws enacted after 2003, especially for materials with financial frenzy, which burdened the budget as well as dealing with an unconventional vision of sources of non-oil revenues to maximize it and reduce the dependence on resources gradually by half during the four Years to come ". 
"As the second track towards the accounting of the defaulters and corrupters, who have caused the waste of trillions in thousands of fictitious projects and Maviat auction and oil traffickers, other than this remains the Iraqi people pay the bill of account."

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Alsumaria News publishes paragraphs of the budget of 2018 and determine the proportion of the region   Tuesday, October 31,             Alsumaria News publishes paragraphs of the budget of 2018 and determine the proportion of the region

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With documents .. Budget next year 85 trillion dinars and the share of Kurdistan where 12.67%

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documents of draft draft law for the general budget of the country 2018, for the total value and the proportion of deficit, in addition to the proportion of Kurdistan, amounting to 12.67%. 

According to documents, the budget value amounted to 85 trillion and 331 million dinars, at 43.4 dollars per barrel of oil, and a production capacity of 3 million and 888 thousand barrels.

The deficit in the budget, according to documents 22 trillion and 782 million and 913 thousand and 506 dinars. 

The documents revealed that the proportion of the Kurdistan region, has become in this budget only 12.67%.

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This is the percentage of Kurdistan from the balance of 2018

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The federal government has identified the percentage of the province of Kurdistan from the budget of 2018, pointing out that the ratio will be 12% instead of 17%.

A document obtained by the «Journal News» that "the ratio is the total actual spending of the federal budget of the Republic of Iraq, which came after the exclusion of political expenses."

 

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30 minutes ago, yota691 said:

85 trillion dinars

 

This wouldn't sound so bad if it were billions instead of trillions...... Just RV already!!!!!!!!

 

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15 minutes ago, bostonangler said:

This wouldn't sound so bad if it were billions instead of trillions

With the Zeros it a Trillion, without the Zeros it is a Billion

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Just now, yota691 said:

With the Zeros it a Trillion, without the Zeros it is a Billion

 

Funny how that works... Let's hope they figure it out... SOON!!!!

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Documents .. Oil gets the highest proportion of the budget of 2018 and the scientific community the least

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BAGHDAD / Al-Ghad Press: 

Federal budget documents for the year 2018, revealed the doors of the budget disbursement of centrally funded departments, the total amounted to more than 108 billion dinars. 

The documents showed that the total budget of centrally funded service departments amounted to 108 billion, 113 million, 913 thousand and 506 dinars. 

And revealed that the Ministry of Oil has the highest percentage, more than 16 billion dinars followed by internal 10 billion dinars and defense 9 billion dinars. 

According to the documents, the scientific complex amounted to two million dinars and 717 thousand and 425 dinars, to be the least institution in terms of allocations, followed by the Office of the endowments of Christianity and Sabean and Yazidis, 6 million and 631 thousand and 133 dinars, and then the property claims by 15 million.

 

 

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Mawazine News / publishes the text of the draft budget bill 2018

 

 Since 2017-11-01 at 10:21 (Baghdad time)

Baghdad Mawazine News

The publication of the agency / Mawazin News /, the text of the draft federal budget bill for the year 2018.

The draft law estimates the total projected expenditures during the next year at 91 billion dollars, an export rate of oil of 3 million and eight hundred thousand barrels per day, including 250 thousand barrels of oil in the Kurdistan region, and 300 thousand barrels of Kirkuk oil province.

The budget was based on a speculative price of $ 43, while the draft estimated the value of the wage at $ 18 billion.

The text of the draft estimates the projected total revenue at $ 72 billion.

 

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Am I reading this correctly? Billions now, not trillions? Keep me grounded here. 

 

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Kurdistan Regional Government calls on Baghdad to provide an opportunity to negotiate the 2018 budget

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Kurdistan Regional Government calls on Baghdad to provide an opportunity to negotiate the 2018 budget

 

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Kurdistan Regional Council of Ministers on Wednesday called on the federal government in Baghdad to provide an opportunity to negotiate the 2018 budget.

The Council said in a statement received by Al-Baghdadiya News, "Haidar al-Abbadi, Prime Minister of Iraq Federal stressed that the citizens of the Kurdistan region are citizens of the first class will not allow them to hurt, expressing the willingness of the federal government to pay the financial dues of employees and employees of the Kurdistan region and welcome these The initiative to secure the financial dues of employees and employees of the Kurdistan Region, estimated at (1,249,481) employees and equal their dues (eight hundred and ninety-nine billion and five hundred million dinars) under the real registration of all employees and employees of the Kurdistan region, according to the system of the biometric in force in the region As explained below, the Kurdistan Regional Government expresses its readiness to prepare the details of this information to the federal government: 108 billion dinars for salaries 244,656 retired employees and 38.5 billion dinars for the salaries of 96.053 families of martyrs and Anfal and 30 billion dinars for salaries 159.

The Council added, "At the same time calls for the Council of Ministers of Iraq Federal not to ratify the draft bill for the general budget of Iraq for the federal year 2018, which was prepared by the Federal Ministry of Finance without the participation of the Kurdistan region, and according to the following:

1. For the first time since 2003, the term Kurdistan Region of Iraq was changed from the draft law to the term " ) Of Article (121) of the Constitution which was adopted upon its entry into the Kurdistan region and its existing authorities federal territory and granted the provincial authorities the right to exercise legislative, executive and judicial powers as a province, not as a province.

2 - Reduction of the share of the Kurdistan region of the federal budget for the first time since 2005 from the ratio of (17%) to (12.6%) and on the basis of actual expenditure and not from the federal revenues and this is contrary to paragraph (III) of Article (121) Provides that the federal government to allocate a fair share of the revenues collected federally to the Kurdistan region, taking into account the proportion of the population of the region, and since the census has not been conducted in Iraq so far, the population was determined in the region by (17%) agreement of the parties, This basis has been approved this percentage in the law of the federal budget annual since 2006, without receiving the Kurdistan region full of this percentage actually in any year, because of the continuous increase of the sovereign expenses annually without the Kurdistan Region has a role in determining these expenses, or to have a share in it, the reduction of the share of Kurdistan to 12 ,

3 - Granting direct powers to the governors of the Kurdistan region in the federal budget law and dealing with the provinces of Kurdistan as governorates not organized in a region and not as a federal province in violation of the provisions of paragraph (I) of Article (117) and paragraph (I) of Article (121) of the Constitution.

4 - Paragraph (IV) of Article (126) of the Constitution does not derogate from the constitutional powers of the Kurdistan region by the federal authorities, but that the Constitution to prevent any constitutional amendment individual lead to a reduction of the powers of the Kurdistan region.

5 - In addition to the existence of the same problems of previous years in the federal budget has been added to the core points contrary to the Constitution mentioned above in the draft federal budget law for the year 2018.

He stressed that "in light of the constitutional articles referred to above, especially that Abadi consistently emphasizes in his speeches and words on the sovereignty of the Iraqi constitution and the non-injury to the citizens of the Kurdistan Region, we call on the Council of Ministers of Iraq Federal to provide an opportunity to negotiate with the Council of Ministers of the Kurdistan region to reformulate the draft law The federal budget for the year 2018 on the basis of the principles contained in the Constitution and to ensure a fair share of the Kurdistan region of Iraq. "

 

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Parliamentary Economy: Increasing the percentage of employees' salaries due to the high cost of military operations and the reconstruction of liberated areas

 

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Economy News Baghdad: A member of the Committee on Economy and Investment Representative, Harith al-Harthy, on Thursday, the increase in the proportion of the deduction of salaries of employees in the budget of 2018 due to high cost of ongoing military operations and the allocation of funds for the reconstruction of liberated areas. "Increasing the costs of military operations and providing logistical support to sustain the momentum of the fight against terrorism and allocating part of the budget to the reconstruction of areas liberated from terrorism has led to an increase of 4.8 percent in the salaries of employees in the draft of the 2018 budget," al-Harithi told Al-Iktissad News. He pointed out that "the conditions of giving the World Bank loans to Iraq, including the suspension of appointments for the coming years to reduce the number of employees working in the public sector." It is noteworthy that a source in the Iraqi government told "Economy News", "The draft draft budget 2018 included an increase in the salaries of Iraqi employees by 1%." He explained that "the text of the budget came in which 4.8% of the total salaries and allowances for all employees of the state and the public sector and retirees all to meet the needs of the state of the expenses of popular mobilization and relief of the displaced and restore stability." He continued that "the Kurdistan Regional Government committed to deduct 4.8% of the total salaries and allocations to meet the needs of the Peshmerga."   Views 559   Date Added 11/02/2017

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Alaq: Salaries of employees and retirees are fully insured

02/11/2017 12:00 am  Baghdad / Tareq al-Araji The Governor of the Central Bank, Dr. Ali Al-Alaq said that the budget of 2018 secured all social, health and security expenses and salaries of employees and retirees.  Al-Alaq said in a dialogue with him "morning" will be published in details later: "The next budget adopted the price of a barrel on nearly 43 dollars with an export estimated at three million and 750 thousand barrels, stressing the need to activate other resources to increase the budget in other amounts and reduce dependence on returns Oil ".  He added that "the recent visit to the United States of America included many meetings and discussions with the International Monetary Fund on the budget next year 2018," noting that the Fund is trying to be budget based on the program that was agreed with the Iraqi government.

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Central Iraqi: $ 43 price of a barrel of oil with a budget of 2018

The next budget secured all social, health and security expenses and salaries of employees and retirees

 

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Direct : The governor of the Central Bank of Iraq that the budget of 2018 adopted the price of oil at 43 dollars a barrel, the export of nearly 3.75 million barrels, according to (Iraqi News Agency)

He stressed on Thursday, Thursday, that the next budget secured all social expenditures, health and security and salaries of employees and retirees .

He pointed to the need to activate other non-oil resources and reduce reliance on oil revenues.

He added that the recent visit to the United States headed by an Iraqi delegation, to attend meetings of the World Bank and the IMF, included meetings and discussions with the Fund on the budget.

 Noting that the International Monetary Fund, stressed the need to be the next budget is built in accordance with the program agreed between him and the Iraqi government.

Iraq announced earlier that the total value of the general budget for 2018 amounted to about 85.33 trillion dinars (71.65 billion dollars), with a deficit of 22.78 trillion dinars (19.13 billion dollars)

The documents showed that the budget included the price of $ 43.4 per barrel of oil, with a production capacity of 3.89 million barrels, to top oil revenues and mineral wealth revenues close to 73 trillion Iraqi dinars .

The IMF said that the economic policies implemented by the Iraqi authorities are appropriate to deal with the shocks facing Iraq, the armed conflict with Dahesh, the consequent humanitarian crisis and the collapse of oil prices.

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KRG Council of Ministers statement on Iraq’s 2018 draft federal budget bill   Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq (cabinet.gov.krd) – The Kurdistan Regional Government Council of Ministers issued a statement on the draft of Iraq’s 2018 federal budget bill and on statement by Iraqi Prime Minister, Mr. Haider Al-Abadi. Below is KRG Council of Ministers’ statement Iraqi Prime Minister, Mr. Haider Al-Abadi, has been stressing that the people of Kurdistan Region are first class citizens and that he will not allow them to be harmed, adding that he will also send the financial dues (salaries) of the civil servants of the Kurdistan Region. The Kurdistan Regional Government’s Council of Ministers welcomes this initiative to pay the salaries of the Kurdistan Region civil servants who number one million two hundred forty-nine thousand and four hundred eighty-one (1,249,481) and the total amount of their salaries is eight hundred ninety seven billions and five hundred million Iraqi Dinars (897, 500,000,000.00). These numbers are based on biometric registration of all the civil servants and pensioners of the Kurdistan Region. The KRG is ready to make this information available. Below are the details of the numbers: - 108 billion Iraqi Dinars are for the pensioners. -  38.5 billion Iraqi Dinars for the salaries of 96,053 families of the martyrs and victims of Anfal campaign. -  30 billion Iraqi Dinars for the salaries of 159,000 handicapped and Welfare Plan beneficiaries. -  455 billion Iraqi Dinars for the salaries of 483,307 civil servants, including the police. -  266 billion Iraqi Dinars for the salaries of 266,465 Peshmerga troops and security forces. Meanwhile the KRG Council of Ministers requests the Federal Iraqi Council of Ministers not to approve the draft bill of Iraq’s 2018 budget, which was prepared by the Federal Ministry of Finance without the participation of the Kurdistan Region and for the following reasons: 1. For the first time since 2003, the constitutional term “Kurdistan Region- Iraq” has been removed and instead the term “Kurdistan Region Governorates” is used. This is clear breach of Section (1) of Article (117) and Section (1) of Article (121) of the Iraqi Federal Constitution which recognizes the Kurdistan Region and its authorities as a Federal Region that has the right to exercise executive, legislative and judicial powers. So the Iraqi Constitution deals with the Kurdistan Region as an entity not as Governorates or provinces. 2. Reducing the budget share of the Kurdistan Region, which is happening for the first time since 2005, from 17 percent to 12.6 percent is a breach of Section (3) of Article (121) of the Iraqi Constitution which states: “Regions and governorates shall be allocated an equitable share of the national revenues sufficient to discharge their responsibilities … having regard to their resources, needs, and the percentage of their population”. However, since an official census has never been conducted in Iraq, both Erbil and Baghdad agreed to estimate the population of the Kurdistan Region at 17 percent of the total population of Iraq. It is on this basis a similar percentage of federal revenues have been allocated to the Kurdistan Region in all Iraqi Fiscal years. It is worth mentioning here, that the Kurdistan Region has never been given the full amount of this 17 percent due to the annual increase of Iraqi Federal sovereign expenditures, yet without the KRG participating in the allocation and spending of these expenditures or even getting a share of it. That is why reducing the Kurdistan Region share of the Federal Iraqi budget has no constitutional basis and has been decided outside the Erbil-Baghdad joint agreement. 3. Granting direct authorities to the governorates of the Kurdistan Region in the federal budget bill and dealing with the Kurdistan Region as “provinces” not as a Region, is a contradiction to Section (1) of Article (117) and Section (1) of Article (121) of the Iraqi Federal Constitution. Not dealing with the Kurdistan Region as one entity “Region” is a breach of the constitution. 4. Section (4) of Article (126) of the Iraqi Constitution prohibits the Federal Authorities from limiting or reducing the powers of the Kurdistan Region. The Constitution even does not allow any amendment of the Constitution that result in the reduction of the powers of the Kurdistan Region. 5. In addition to the repetition of the same flaws of previous years in the draft budget bill of 2018, now the above mentioned “unconstitutional points” have been added to the bill. Taking the above constitutional references into consideration and on the basis of Iraqi Prime Minister, Mr. Haider Al-Abadi’s statements of not intending to harm Kurdistan Region people, we ask the Federal Iraqi Council of Ministers to communicate and negotiate with the Kurdistan Region’s Council of Ministers in order to redraft the federal budget bill within the framework of the constitution and a fair allocation of budget to the Kurdistan Region. Kurdistan Region Council of Ministers 1 November 2017

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KRG welcomes Abadi’s offer to pay Kurdish salaries, costs Baghdad $772m

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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The Kurdistan Regional Government has welcomed a call by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi for Baghdad to pay the salary of Kurdish public servants, saying that doing so requires the Iraqi government has to pay 1.2 million people and that will cost Iraq 897.5 billion Iraqi dinars ($772 million).

 

The KRG said in a statement that it is willing to provide the Iraqi government the list of those people who are on its payroll if Baghdad agreed to pay in full their salaries.

 

It also criticized the proposal for the 2018 Iraqi budget which for the first time does not refer to Erbil as the Kurdistan Region, instead choosing to use “the provinces of the Kurdistan.” It said doing so violates the Iraqi constitution recognizing the Kurdistan Region as a federal entity with its own government, legislature and laws.

 

The KRG detailed that it has 1,249,481 people on its payroll, including 455,000 public servants (police forces included), 266,465 Peshmerga and local Asayish (Kurdish security).

 

PM Abadi stated on Tuesday that his government is willing to pay the Kurdish salaries.

 

The Kurdistan Region has been struggling to pay its large employees because of the drop in oil prices, the war on ISIS, and budget cuts by Iraq since 2014.

 

The KRG said it is willing to provide the list of its employees it collected through the biometric mechanism aimed at canceling double salaries and ghost employees. 

 

PM Abadi on Monday doubted the Kurdish Region has hundreds of thousands of Peshmerga fighters, saying it is a small fighting force while many stay at home.

 

He said the Peshmerga must either come under the command of the Iraqi government, or be downsized to a small, local force paid by Erbil.

 

The KRG demanded for the Iraqi government not to approve a budget proposal presented by Baghdad’s finances ministry that “for the first time since 2003 the constitutional term of (the Kurdistan Region-Iraq) has been removed and instead used the term 'provinces of the Kurdistan Region,' ” the statement detailed. It added that this violates Article 117 of the Iraqi constitution that recognized the Kurdistan Region as a federal region with its own government, parliament and judiciary.

 

It said that the Iraqi government trying to deal directly with the provinces of the Kurdistan Region is also in violation of the Iraqi constitution since the constitution recognized the four provinces collectively as one entity.

 

The KRG pointed out that the budget proposal for the first time since 2005 has cut the Kurdish share from its entitled 17 percent down to a mere 12 percent. It added that the KRG and Iraq have since 2005 agreed that the Kurdish population constitutes 17 percent of the Iraqi population, and this remains to be the case unless a census conducted.

 

The regional government stated the Iraqi constitution does not allow the federal government to decrease the constitutional powers of the Kurdish government, nor does it allow the constitution to be amended in this regard.

 

It concluded that PM Abadi has long advocated that every side respect the constitution, and now it is his turn to show in practice that his government will be doing so. 

 

http://www.rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/011120175

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URGENT Abadi: 330 million euros in budget funds as money laundering

Editorial Date: 2017/11/1 18:52 • 1401 times read

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Learn about the percentage of employees' salaries in the 2018 budget

 

 From 2017-11-02 at 18:58 (Baghdad time)

 Baghdad - Mawazine News

A source in the Parliamentary Economics Committee revealed on Thursday that the draft federal budget law for 2018 is free of allocating job grades to the sectors of the state, with the increase of deductions from employees salaries to 4.8%.

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Mawazine News that "the budget next year does not include the allocation of job grades in the ministries of the state in fulfillment of the conditions of the International Monetary Fund to stop appointments for the coming years to reduce the number of public servants and to go to the private sector.

The source added that "the ratio of government deduction of the salaries of employees and retirees in the new budget 2018 will reach 4.8%, while the government justified the high costs of military operations and the allocation of funds for the reconstruction of liberated areas," noting that "the proportion of Kurdistan budget will reach 12.67% .

The estimated draft budget bill 2018 total projected expenditures during the next year at 91 billion dollars, an export rate of oil of 3 million and eight hundred thousand barrels per day, including 250 thousand barrels of oil in the Kurdistan region, and 300,000 barrels of Kirkuk oil province.