Will Iraq become the highest Arab country in economic growth?

[Butifldrm]

13-01-2018 All times are GMT +3

No pass without these conditions .. Budget unite the Shiites, Kurds and Sunnis against Abbadi

 

 

 

The head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan bloc, Ares Abdullah, on Saturday, reported to the Kurdistan Alliance Prime Minister Haider Abadi, the possibility of passing the budget law without achieving the conditions of the main blocs, "the Kurdistan Alliance and the National Alliance and the Union of Forces ." 

Abdullah said that "blocs of the Kurdistan Alliance agreed not to pass the budget in the event of the government's approval to restore the rates allocated to the Kurdistan region, according to 17% only after the fulfillment of the demands of the National Alliance and the Union of Forces ."

 He added that "the Kurdistan Alliance asked Abadi officially allocate funds to the southern oil-producing provinces as well as allocate funds to return the displaced and the reconstruction of liberated areas as well as the condition of the Kurdistan Alliance basic ."

Abdullah pointed out that "this coalition step came in order to unite the demands of all provinces to force the government on the terms of the political blocs unified in the financial budget ."

 

http://www.ikhnews.com/index.php?page=article&id=163724

 

 

[yota691]

2018/16 (00:01 PM)   -   Number of readings: 115   -   Number (4112)

 

 

Differences of government and parliament threaten to postpone the adoption of the budget of 2018

 

The government responded to all the observations and amendments made by the parliamentary blocs to be included in the draft federal budget law for 2018, considering that they are personal and electoral demands impede the passage of the budget.

And things are heading towards more complex after Abadi refused the request of the parliamentary blocs, which tried to meet with him to discuss the budget law, on condition of meeting after the first reading of the budget law.

The chances of the adoption of the federal budget are slim due to the growing dispute between Abadi and the parliamentary blocs, most of whom vowed to break the quorum of Wednesday's session, which was set to search for an appropriate mechanism to deal with the budget file. 
The Presidency of the House of Representatives has collected the observations submitted by the blocks and exceeded the 35 proposals required by the government included in the draft for discussion in the House of Representatives. 
The Speaker of the House of Representatives Salim al-Jubouri has referred, earlier this month, the Budget Law 2018 to the Finance Committee to prepare a final version and collect all the observations and objections that belong to the blocks and integration into the project. 
The government sent the federal budget bill for 2018 to parliament at the end of last November, at the last session of the legislative chapter
A member of the Finance Committee MP Massoud Haider (range) yesterday, "The government refused to include comments of the parliamentary blocs in the federal budget law and responded negatively to these constitutional and legislative demands." 
"The government sent negative responses to the remarks of the deputies to the Presidency of the House of Representatives, and the responses are not convincing to all the blocks, which will be difficult to reach an agreement on the passage of the federal budget," expected "not complete the quorum Wednesday session, which was devoted to discuss the draft federal budget law for 2018" . 
The deputy of the Kurdistan Change bloc that "the number of observations of the Sunni forces on the budget up to 12 notes, and the Kurdish blocs have 9 observations, in addition to the objections of the oil-producing provinces in the center and the south," adding that "unless a political agreement can not be passed budget In parliament ".
The federal budget was estimated at 108 trillion dinars, with an expected deficit of 13 trillion dinars. And saw the reduction of the share of the Kurdistan region from 17% to 12.67%. 
After receiving the budget law, the Finance Committee called the political blocs, in early December last, to send their comments on the draft law in a maximum of two days. 
In the same context, MP Rahim Darraji, another member of the Finance Committee, that "the general budget has become a subject of stalemate because of differences between the government and the parliamentary blocs on many points and paragraphs." 
"Most MPs are demanding a meeting with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi before the vote on the acceptance of the federal budget law in principle, but the government wants to read the budget first reading as a condition for holding the meeting with the deputies," Darraji said.
The member of the Finance Committee said that "the meeting Wednesday will discuss how to deal with the draft federal budget law," adding that "delayed adoption of the budget will not affect the conduct of elections on the grounds that the government can allocate funds to UNHCR." 
The speaker of the House of Representatives set a meeting on Wednesday to include the budget law. The coalition of forces threatened last month to boycott parliament sessions because the allocation of displaced people and compensation to areas affected by military operations was not included in the budget. 
For his part, the appearance of Mohammed Saleh, Adviser to the Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, the amendments and observations sent by the Parliament to the Prime Minister saying "can not add any amendment to the federal budget law unless the Parliament ends its first reading."

He added that "the adoption of the budget is a national issue because we are coming to the donors conference and we will deal with international organizations calling us to approve the federal budget" .

[Butifldrm]

Parliamentary Finance denies the agreement of the political blocs to read the budget in the meeting tomorrow

SECTION: SLIDE NEWSJANUARY 16, 2018 4:16 PM

Parliamentary Finance denies the agreement of the political blocs to read the budget in the meeting tomorrow

 

Baghdad / Baghdadiya News .. The member of the Finance Committee parliamentary Abdul Qadir Mohammed, on Tuesday, any agreement between the political blocs to read the draft federal budget law for the year 2018 in the session of the House of Representatives tomorrow, the first reading.

"The meeting held between the Presidency of the House of Representatives and the heads of the parliamentary blocs did not result in any agreement on the draft budget law for the year 2018," Mohammed said in a statement read by the Baghdadiya News.

He added that "the inclusion of the draft law on the agenda of the session on Wednesday came in accordance with the law because the presidency of the House of Representatives is obliged to include the project in the agenda."

He pointed out that "the observations of the parliamentary blocs on the draft budget law is still in place, where block Kurdish blocs on the share of the Kurdistan region of the budget and Sunni blocs want to increase the amounts allocated for the reconstruction of liberated areas and the deputies of Basra want additional allocations to the province.

He ruled out "the first reading of the draft budget law in a meeting on Wednesday," stressing that "many observations will be the reason for the lack of quorum."

 

http://www.albaghdadiyanews.com/?p=97516

[yota691]

The ministry calls on parliament to approve the budget

17/1/2018 12:00 am  Parliamentary Finance discussed its paragraphs Baghdad / Tareq al-Araji The Ministry of Finance appealed to the House of Representatives the need to approve the budget for this year to relate directly to the service provided to employees and citizens alike and the interests of the whole country, while the parliamentary finance held yesterday a meeting in which the articles  And budget paragraphs.  A senior source in the Ministry of Finance for «morning»: The delay in the adoption of the financial budget for the current year led to delay appointments and delete and development and stop the promotion and the annual allowance of staff until the adoption of the budget this year 2018.  He added that the only loser in the process of delay approval of the budget is the citizen because the launch of appointments Will contribute to the employment of labor in state institutions, in addition to the delay in approving the budget have negative effects on the performance of state institutions in general.  The Ministry of Finance issued a general rule that the authority of exchange by 1/12 for the current month of actual expenses compared to the year 2017 and continue to stop the appointments either on the owners or in the form of contract and stop the transfer of staff services and stop the procedures of bonuses and promotions and stop the movement of transfers until the federal budget law. To this, headed by MP Mohammad Tamim, a meeting of the parliamentary finance committee on Tuesday, discussed the discussion of articles and paragraphs of the budget for the year 2018 and vote on the wording of a decision on the Central Bank deal with banks operating in the Kurdistan region.  The meeting also discussed, according to a statement issued by the Committee, a draft law granting the employee a long habitual leave and address the status of retirees to raise it to vote, as well as discuss the proposed law of electronic ration card.  The participants discussed the issue of drafting a resolution regarding the follow-up of the smuggled money from oil revenues by government officials.  The Committee hosted last Sunday, the Governor of the Central Bank Ali Alaq, and discussed the resolution of the House of Representatives No. 58 on the denial of the banks of the Kurdistan region to participate in the sale of currency auction

[yota691]

2018/01/20 (00:01 PM)   -   Number of readings: 55   -   Number (4115)

 

 

Specialists warn against the consequences of late adoption of the budget and its repercussions on the provinces

 Baghdad / Fadia Al-Jawari 
 

Warned a number of specialists in the local economic affairs, the consequences of delaying the adoption of the budget for 2018 due to political differences, stressing that this will have negative repercussions and prejudice against the provinces, at the same time, members of the provincial council of Basra, the province suffers suffocation due to high debt And stopped service projects because of the lack of financial allocations, which led to the lack of funds, and must increase its share of the budget.

The head of the Planning Committee in the province of Basra, Nashat Mansouri, for Basra province on 300 billion dinars, out of 3 trillion dinars, from the allocation of petrodollars for the year 2017, saying: In an interview with (range), "the share of the province of Basra for each barrel In addition to every 150 cubic meters of gas of $ 15 per category five dollars. "This quota was established by the Provincial Law No. (21) of Article 44 of 2008, but the federal government suggested that the proportion of Basra is 5% One of the three categories and not all of them. "He 
continued: Mansouri Therefore, the maturity of Basra 3 trillion dinars according to n The figure of 5%, pointing out that it received 300 billion dinars last year, "noting that" this unfair to the right of the province, especially as they need to complete the service projects stalled, which will be destroyed because of this decision. "
It is worth mentioning that Iraq began approving the petrodollar project in 2008, which relies on 5% or 5 dollars of the revenues of crude oil produced in the province and 5% of refined oil revenues in the refineries of the province and 5% of the revenues of natural gas produced in the province. 
For his part, Deputy Chairman of the Basra Provincial Council Ahmed al-Silti, "There is a deficit in the budget of projects worth 80%, indicating that the allocation of six trillion dinars by the central government as a budget for Basra, is not commensurate with the requirements and need of the province as a producer and a major source of Iraqi oil" .
Al-Sulaiti said in an interview for (the extent) that "Basra reduced its projects because of the federal budget facing a large deficit, so the Council raised the budget by 31 trillion dinars, adding:" The government allocated only six trillion dinars, which is not commensurate with the requirements And the need for Basra as a producer and exporter of Iraqi oil, "noting that" the size of the amount that formed a deficit in the budget of 2017 is 25 trillion Iraqi dinars. 
"He al-Sulaiti that" the provincial council hosted the Planning Committee in the province earlier to discuss the mechanism to overcome the deficit and how will be divided amount Allocated ", and expected that" the Council of Basra and Dio N maintaining legal proceedings against the federal government to ensure the rights of the people of Basra. "
In turn, confirms the member of the Committee on oil and energy parliamentary, Furat al-Shara, that the budget of the country for this year 2018 unfair to the rights of the province of Basra, and says Shara in a statement received (range), a copy of it, "The federal budget 2018 carries with it many points and paragraphs are wrong and need to A study with great meditation and deliberation, a clear specialization, accuracy, justice and fairness. " 
Shara pointed out that "the province of Basra suffers from not counting the petrodollar in all paragraphs of the budget and border crossings of all kinds, as well as not to return the money of Basra from the federal government through the Law 21 and the abolition of some ministries."
And stresses in his statement: it is not right to be given to Kurdistan 17% of the budget and budgets, but the return to the census more equitable, "and called for" the stabilization of oil exports from Kurdistan than the above and in line with the reality of extraction, and there are points and other paragraphs others "We are working on not to hinder the adoption of the budget, which is a serious risk." 
On the other hand, confirms the Chairman of the Legal Committee in the Council of Basra, Ahmed Abdul Hussein, that the province has been subject to financial distress and injustice by the federal government by blocking allocations for 2017.
Abdul Hussein said that "Basra entered into contractual obligations in some service projects, including road projects and file cleaning and sewerage projects in the neighborhood of Hussein and more than two thousand contract with the province of staff in education and municipal, and humanitarian projects to send patients out of Iraq," noting that " By blocking the allocations and there is no real justification to prevent them from maintaining the contrary to the law and the Constitution. 
He adds that "the province administration hopes through appeals and through pressure on the federal government and move the members of the House of Representatives from Basra and the local government of Basra, in the development of additional allocations in the budget of 2018, to fill the deficit and large debts to the province, which amounted to more than 180 billion dinars," adding that "Basra demanded the inclusion of the petrodollar budget, which is five dollars, per barrel produced in the province, and five dollars per barrel refined, and five per hundred and fifty cubic meters of gas."

[yota691]

An economist: If Iraq's budgets had been divided since 2003 on the people to become princes

17:20 - 20/01/2018

 

  

Information / Baghdad ...

The economic expert Salam Samisem, on Saturday, the budget of Iraq since 2003 to 2014 about 959 billion dollars, saying that if the money was distributed to the people to become princes.

"The budget of Iraq from 2003 to 2014 amounted to about 959 billion dollars and the number of the souls of Iraq about 30 million people," Smisem said in a statement read by the agency.

"If you divide this money into the number of souls, the per capita share is about $ 32,000," he said. "Every Iraqi will become a prince. If we calculate each family's average of seven people, the share of each family will be $ 224 million."

"The Iraqi budget before the occupation was only $ 3.2 billion, according to the mechanism of oil for food and the country was trapped." Ending / 25

[blueskyline]

Thank You Yota . Track down every nickel and penny

[mr.unlikely]

On 1/11/2018 at 6:34 AM, 10 YEARS LATER said:

Good to know there are still Constants in the Universe-FUBAR !

Ten I couldn't agree more. These camel crotch smelling dune buffoons can't pass a budget but they can submit billing for their salaries! Same as it EVER WAS! SAME AS IT EVER WAS!!!

[fnbplanet]

1 hour ago, yota691 said:

An economist: If Iraq's budgets had been divided since 2003 on the people to become princes

17:20 - 20/01/2018

 

  

Information / Baghdad ...

The economic expert Salam Samisem, on Saturday, the budget of Iraq since 2003 to 2014 about 959 billion dollars, saying that if the money was distributed to the people to become princes.

"The budget of Iraq from 2003 to 2014 amounted to about 959 billion dollars and the number of the souls of Iraq about 30 million people," Smisem said in a statement read by the agency.

"If you divide this money into the number of souls, the per capita share is about $ 32,000," he said. "Every Iraqi will become a prince. If we calculate each family's average of seven people, the share of each family will be $ 224 million."

"The Iraqi budget before the occupation was only $ 3.2 billion, according to the mechanism of oil for food and the country was trapped." Ending / 25

 

While waiting out the budget negotiations, someone seems to have too much time, and a calculator on their desk.

 

[yota691]

The budget of 2018 and its problems .. Absence of transparency and economic approach

22/1/2018 12:00 am  Baghdad / Al-Sabah The   number of votes that touched on the door of the draft law of the budget of 2018 takes a wide range to reach what it will provide in maximizing resources and rationalization of expenditures taking into account the lessons of the implementation of budgets achieved for previous years and should be configured to implement this budget to be different from the previous pattern through the activation of procedures A new quality of governance for its implementation throughout the year and set the stage for change and real reform for the coming years.  Speaking d. Kamal al-Basri, head of the team of financial advisers and voluntary head of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of economic reform on the financial situation in Iraq in general and the budget of 2018 in particular, and he believes that the budget of 2018 came under the impact of the repercussions of the decline of financial management, which continued throughout the previous period, Absent the economic feasibility, and more precisely in the absence of transparency and economic approach was the public money and financial revenues of oil "easy to earn and easy to spend, in front of the previous government found itself in front of the financial obligations and lack of economic feasibility, and could not implement the policy Rationalization of public spending, and that the rush of political blocs on the budget within the corridors of the House should not be justified not to be approved, as this flux has nothing to do with the interest of the citizen. {Lord of harmful evil}  Al-Basri stressed that "this year's budget was an appropriate opportunity to announce the reforms awaited by the Iraqis, and that turning the financial crisis in Iraq to the beginning of the real start of the reform makes the crisis a real application of the prevailing model. The law and the fight against corruption and the selection of honest and qualified leaders and accountability for performance to achieve the results, "noting that" our situation now can be likened to the case of the patient who is thirsty for early treatment, but the doctor was mediated by the doses of treatment to the patient, and the fact that our eagerness for the revolution of reform does not cost us only to investigate One of the constraints imposed by the consequences of the rent-economy policy is "   economic reforms "The vision of the members of the team of financial advisers in the voluntary Ministry of Finance, which conveys them on their behalf believes that the previous governments have completed several reform strategies and we hope to be dealt with seriously and strong will in the implementation of these strategies: private sector, education, energy, industry .. Etc. There are other reforms that deal with government support policies and carefully review them to reduce waste such as subsidizing the prices of oil derivatives. Yes, there are difficulties, but at the very least, the preparation of feasibility studies for support policies and promotion to understand the citizen value of sacrifice and benefit achieved. Set a road map to assess government support. " Budget and debt  He pointed out that "transparency is required when planning and preparing the budget, and the lack of transparency gives way to abuse using public money," stressing the importance of "caution against the continued use of And the continued absence of the vision that oil is a sufficient resource for depletion, as well as that the wealth is not only for the current generation, but for future generations as well, and that their use must be exclusively for the development of economic capital Which is the introduction of factories and the necessary technologies and human capacity building  He called for "to start now the development of a strategy to determine the rate of escalation to increase the proportion of the use of oil revenues for the purposes of investment allocations." The importance of education He pointed out that it is necessary to stand when education is not given the utmost importance to address the current shortage of buildings and equipment necessary to create an educational situation that is conducive to economic reform. The most important investment is investment in education. International experiences confirm that the prosperity and stability of the community democratic process is linked to the development of education and culture in both quantity and quality, "  Capital Projects And within the vision of the team of advisers conveyed by the team leader d. Al-Basri said: "The approval of capital investment projects must be carried out in accordance with sound feasibility studies, which are discussed with government agencies by consultants on the basis of value in return for financial allocation, and that all government contracts must be concluded by an experienced person to get out of the bad practices that led to the delay And the cooperation and coordination with the Ministry of Planning to follow up performance in the implementation and achieve the desired results. "For example, the allocation of electricity is still high, and was supposed to be a time plan whereby the electricity production gradually turn to self-financing with the presence of Berna C Mali to protect the poor. " Oil price Al-Basri confirmed the members of the Advisory Group and warned them of "continuing to adopt the budget sharply on oil resources, which suffer from two problems: fluctuation of export volume and fluctuation of prices, which requires the construction of a special section in the Ministry of Finance to study the changes in the price of oil in the global markets and forecast, The Ministry of oil to avoid fluctuating quantities of oil exported.  and that " the adoption of the price of oil less than the expected price of the international market health condition for the establishment of a special reserve fund surpluses derived from the increase in the price of oil to ward off the risk of price fluctuations and can develop it to" investment fund for the next generations "He added that the Ministry of Finance should prepare an alternative mechanism to benefit from the oil revenues, reflecting that all citizens have an equal right to the oil wealth and impose a uniform tax on government services. Income taxes Taxation is poorly planned, the reality is that there is a tax evasion of 61 percent, and the sales tax base can be expanded by covering all classified facilities Tourists, restaurants, hotels to avoid the evasion of some facilities by reducing the classification, and the imposition of sales tax in modern markets (Mollat), which spread widely and be added to the price directly and deducted for the benefit of the Tax Department, as well as the cancellation of previous exemptions from that tax, In order Coalition authority No. 17 of 2004. "He added that he could expand the tax base by subjecting selling cars sales tax, and the activation of the mobile phone tax to otherwise. The insurance process and insurance, he said: "The obligation of importers to conduct insurance on their goods with Iraqi companies, and the increase of the activity of these companies achieve many benefits, and pointed to the importance of changing the pattern of collection of customs duties, and imposed on the basis of the amount of remittances and letters of credit, evasion.  fair revenue , said Dr. Basri , said " a team of financial advisers had stressed the importance of raising the efficiency of the state management of real estate in order to ensure the achievement of fair revenue there is a high percentage of more than 40 percent of them outside the control of the administration and other division is not the collection of revenues in proportion and measuring Of the market, the trend towards the collection of fees from visiting the areas of religious tourism and areas of archaeological, and the introduction of new quality measures contribute to increasing non - oil revenues by imposing the rule of law and the fight against corruption and choose an efficient and competent leadership and accountability for performance and results. "

[siberian_shaddow]

On 1/20/2018 at 12:09 PM, fnbplanet said:

 

While waiting out the budget negotiations, someone seems to have too much time, and a calculator on their desk.

 

Your so correct, these people have so much time to do what ever they want except what they need to do. 

[yota691]

23-01-2018 02:49 PM

Kurdish proposals for slaves on the budget and promise to pass it by "pledge" of it

 

 

 

"The Kurdistan Democratic Party MP Ashwaq dry, Tuesday, that" the Kurdistan Alliance presented nine points to Prime Minister Haider Abadi on the budget, "pointing out that" there is a rejection of the deputies of the oil-producing provinces along with the Kurdish blocs to include the budget without commitment Abbadi not to challenge Paragraphs that guarantee the rights of those provinces . 

The dry, that "the Kurdish blocs will not discuss the budget now without sitting with the Prime Minister and discuss the demands of the southern provinces and the demands of the Kurdistan region ."

 

The MP for the Liberal Liberal parliamentary bloc Abdul Aziz al-Dhlami suggested in a press statement , Monday to pass the general budget in the government formula without including the demands of the political blocs, referring to the challenge of the government in the event of any financial increases except internal transfers .

[yota691]

Parliament calls for the rejection of differences and the adoption of the budget

28/1/2018 12:00 am   BAGHDAD / Sabah   called the parliamentary legal committee on Saturday, the political blocs to leave the differences and the agreement quickly for the adoption of the state budget for 2018, while the pledge of a deputy from the coalition of Iraqi forces to attend the coalition meeting of the budget approval to allocate the allocations of the affected provinces, revealed the Committee on Migration and Displaced Parliamentary, Political pressure "on the judiciary to delay the resolution of the file" stealing "90 percent of funds allocated to the displaced, while warned of the efforts of" corrupt "to steal money from the budget of 2018.   Committee member Sadik al-Labban said in a press statement received by "Al-Sabah": "The Parliament puts final touches in its current session and concludes its activities with the most important law that touches the need of the citizen and affects his daily life and it is inappropriate to disappoint him and put conditions that prevent the passage of the budget, , And we have to give a positive message that encourages voters to interact with the Electoral Fund, especially that failure to approve the budget harms all components of the Iraqi people. "The political blocs to assess the volume of responsibility and put aside the differences and the just demand to fill the urgent need with a budget burdened with the effects of war on the urging of the economic crisis and suffocating in order to approve the State budget for 2018 as soon as possible," He explained, "Justice must be achieved in the claim on the budget, And in accordance with the Constitution and the laws in force to establish the stability in their application and the elimination of abuses that generated distortions in the design of fiscal and economic policy of a federal state respects the rights of everyone and deal fairly with them. In turn, the MP for a coalition of state law Mansour al-Baiji in a statement received by "morning": "The dispute over the budget is still ongoing between the political blocs on the grounds that everyone has demands on the budget, which led to block them," explaining that "as representatives of the people to our provinces producing "We demand the right of the petro-dollar, which was cut off because of austerity and war against a dodger and will not give up." He pointed out that "the demands on the budget must be considered demands so that the government can   include." And on the budget of the Kurdistan region, said Baiji: "This is their natural right according to the proportions of the population similar to other provinces, and the demands of the Alliance of forces to rebuild their areas, the provinces of Iraq all need to reconstruction, especially oil-producing provinces, which suffer a significant deterioration of infrastructure, although it produces oil, Did not give their right, "and demanded the MP" to provide degrees of functional budget and give the constitutional rights to all the provinces related to the budget of the benefits, "expressing" his hope that all political blocs away from early election propaganda and to move to approve the budget as soon as the service of the country We and our people because the delay in their approval will negatively affect all services and disrupt   public interests. " On the other hand, the MP said the coalition of Iraqi forces, the architect: "The reliance on international grants or conferences to be held, including the Kuwait Conference for the reconstruction of areas destroyed by terrorist organizations is not true," noting that "the budget in 2018 did not include any allocations to compensate the affected areas This is one of the fundamental differences of not to put the budget on the agenda, "pointing out that" the affected provinces need very large amounts for reconstruction, but we are talking today about the basic things that allow the return of families to their homes and provide the simplest services for life, We are, "ordered not to attend the unsettled any specialty sessions to vote on the budget unless the resolution is affected by the provincial allocations." On the other hand, said the member of the Committee on Migration and Displaced Representatives Salim al-Shabab: "There are political pressures applied to the judiciary to delay the resolution of the file of theft of funds displaced," pointing out that "the Commission referred the file to the Integrity and Justice Commission for more than two years, "90 percent of the displaced people's money has been stolen by the corrupt and powerful," he said, warning that "corrupt people are eagerly awaiting the current budget to steal the money of the displaced," he said. .

[new york kevin]

April, May, or June of 2018

[10 YEARS LATER]

Honestly, did we expect anything different from these Pin Heads ?

[yota691]

Kurdistan Alliance: adhering to our 17% entitlement and the inclusion of the region with international loans

 Since 2018-01-28 at 13:03 (Baghdad time)

Special Mawazine News

The Kurdistan Alliance, on Sunday, adherence to the rate of 17% as a share of Kurdistan in the budget law, and the inclusion of the region with international loans.

The MP for the Alliance Shireen Reza, for / Mawazin News /, "All the observations we sent to the Council of Ministers has not been made any change," asserting that "the Kurdish blocs reject the proportion of 12.67% as the benefit of Kurdistan in the budget."

Reza added, "We insist on the rate of 17%," stressing that "the need to change all paragraphs of the budget that the price of oil began to rise, and what was installed in the budget $ 56 per barrel."

"We will not vote on the budget if it remains the same, as is the case for Sunni deputies in relation to the paragraphs relating to the displaced and affected areas."

For his part, said the MP for the Sarhan Sulaimani, for / Mawazin News / / "The demands of Kurdish blocs that belong to the budget is legitimate."

Sulaimani explained, "of our demands as Kurdish blocs to re-work with the Kurdistan government and inclusive of the region with international loans, and include the percentage of 17% share of the Kurds in the budget law." Ended 29 / a 43

[yota691]

Shara explains the reasons for not voting on the budget law

28/01/2018

 

 

(Independent) .. The MP for the National Alliance, Furat al-Shara that three reasons may prevent the agreement to pass the budget law at the present time, "calling for" further discussions and discussions to reach a formula, and overcome the problems that threaten the ratification of the most important project in Life of the Iraqi citizen ".

Shara added that "the provinces producing oil and gas demands to ensure their financial rights in the budget law, especially with regard to the paragraph petro dollars and additional imports," noting that "these problems can be solved through the provision of the central government financial guarantees to these provinces to complete their projects and stop the effects of the effects Continuing oil operations. "

He pointed out that "the other problem related to the rate of the Kurdistan region of the federal budget for 2018, which was set this year by (12.6%)," pointing out that "this percentage was rejected by the large Kurdish blocs, which calls for lifting to (17%) as it took place Custom in all previous budgets. "

He added that "Among the other problems that cause the disruption of the vote on the budget law is to require representatives of the affected areas by the organization calling the terrorist to allocate funds for the reconstruction of these areas estimated at (6 trillion dinars)"

Al-Shara explained that "continuous discussions based on constitutional foundations and the reduction of the bishop of claims and benefits may lead to a consensual result leading to passage of the budget law and solving the problems that accompany the law."

[TexasMike1958]

7 hours ago, yota691 said:

Shara explains the reasons for not voting on the budget law

28/01/2018

 

 

(Independent) .. The MP for the National Alliance, Furat al-Shara that three reasons may prevent the agreement to pass the budget law at the present time, "calling for" further discussions and discussions to reach a formula, and overcome the problems that threaten the ratification of the most important project in Life of the Iraqi citizen ".

Shara added that "the provinces producing oil and gas demands to ensure their financial rights in the budget law, especially with regard to the paragraph petro dollars and additional imports," noting that "these problems can be solved through the provision of the central government financial guarantees to these provinces to complete their projects and stop the effects of the effects Continuing oil operations. "

He pointed out that "the other problem related to the rate of the Kurdistan region of the federal budget for 2018, which was set this year by (12.6%)," pointing out that "this percentage was rejected by the large Kurdish blocs, which calls for lifting to (17%) as it took place Custom in all previous budgets. "

He added that "Among the other problems that cause the disruption of the vote on the budget law is to require representatives of the affected areas by the organization calling the terrorist to allocate funds for the reconstruction of these areas estimated at (6 trillion dinars)"

Al-Shara explained that "continuous discussions based on constitutional foundations and the reduction of the bishop of claims and benefits may lead to a consensual result leading to passage of the budget law and solving the problems that accompany the law."

 

Take the percentage problem up with the IMF.  They recommended it.

[ChuckFinley]

16 hours ago, TexasMike1958 said:

 

Take the percentage problem up with the IMF.  They recommended it.

Works for me   

[10 YEARS LATER]

FREAKING MORONS 

[Butifldrm]

If these morons can get this ironed out, we may see a way paved for HCL!

 

Headed by Sheikh Hamam Hamoudi member of the Presidency of the House of Representatives hosts the Prime Minister to resolve the problems on the budget law

 January 31, 2018 28 Views

The House of Representatives headed by Sheikh Hammam Hamoudi, a member of the Presidency, a meeting hosted by the Prime Minister Haider Abadi with leaders of political blocs and members of the Finance Committee and a number of deputies to resolve the problems that oppose the adoption of the budget law of 2018.

At the beginning of the meeting, Sheikh Hamoudi welcomed the Prime Minister and expressed the hope that the meeting would reach a final agreement on the wording of the budget and the amendments required in agreement with the Prime Minister in order to vote on them as soon as possible.

Sheikh Hammoud Hamoudi said that there are many proposals and more than a proposed formula on the draft budget law must be resolved by reaching a unified formula and amendments to the budget consensus.

Sheikh Hammoud Hamoudi gave way to the leaders of the political blocs and representatives of oil-producing provinces to listen to their proposals and observations on the budget items on which the dispute is raging.

Where the members of the oil-producing provinces need to reach a final and consensus on the percentage of petrodollars that should be allocated to the oil-producing provinces. The discussion centered on the rate of deduction of $ 5 per barrel or 5% of the price of selling barrels of oil.

For its part, Prime Minister Haider Abadi, his objection to the rate of 5 dollars per barrel, noting that this ratio did not take into consideration the maturity of companies and the cost of extraction in this case is equal to $ 15 per barrel and this amount makes the government unable to pay

Then a side meeting was held by members of the oil-producing provinces with members of the Finance Committee to reach a formula and a consensual amendment on the rate of deduction for the petrodollar.

MP Salah al-Jubouri, head of the National Alliance of Forces, said that his bloc submitted a list of 12 notes sent to the prime minister and the finance ministry for discussion but no meeting was held.

Jubouri expressed the hope that the meeting will come out by consensus on the remarks of his bloc, especially with regard to the liberated and affected provinces of military operations, especially if the availability of financial availability in light of the high price of a barrel of oil.

For his part, the Prime Minister responded by saying that he was briefed on the observations of the Alliance of Forces, pointing out that there are items in the budget to support system" rel="">support liberated areas, including loans, in addition to what is provided by the Reconstruction Fund liberated areas, referring to the donor conference for the reconstruction of Iraq in Kuwait next month, To these liberated and affected areas.

Mr. Abadi said that the problem in the administration of the provinces and not in the funds allocated to them.

Rep. Khalaf Abdul Samad from the province of Basra that the imbalance is not in the management of the former provinces, but in the insistence of the central ministries not to grant and transfer of powers to the provinces and work decentralized system, adding regarding Basra that the province demands its entitlement in the petrodollar and not exceed the share of the budget.

MP Mazin al-Mazni said that the province needs to develop strategic projects in the budget in order to meet the requirements of citizens and their needs and not to develop a percentage may not achieve these projects or not meet the costs, pointing out that the province suffers from cancer and many service problems and the absence of paved roads and water Drinkable.

For his part, MP Ali Maaraj, Chairman of the Committee on oil and energy that the options offered to be the rate of deduction for the petrodollar either from the extracted oil or the product or gas accompaniment must be accompanied by the formation of a committee to stabilize the debts of the previous share of the provinces in the petrodollar of the government and set a time period for the release of petrodollar funds.

MP Magda al-Tamimi, a member of the Finance Committee, confirmed that the law of deducting $ 5 per barrel is illegal because it is not possible to divide the fixed on the mobile price. This deduction must be a percentage.

MP Jabbar al-Abbadi suggested allocating a percentage of the revenues of border ports to develop these ports in order to develop and increase imports and rehabilitate them.

She called for the end of the suffering of more than seven thousand policemen from the province of Nineveh, who were dismissed from the job because of the occupation of their city by the organization calling, in addition to the massive destruction of homes and environmental pollution due to large decomposing bodies left under the debris of houses on the right side.

In turn, MP Hossam al-Aqabi suggested that a plan be drawn up for three to five years to be deducted annually from within the budget each year for the liberated provinces for reconstruction, adding to it the realization of the investment and grants provided by donor countries.

The MP Ahmad al-Jarba from the province of Nineveh that there is a significant shortage in the preparation of local police in the province of Nineveh compared to the population of the province, which is close to four million people,

Police in the province have doubled in order to restore security and maintain the security of the province by their own children.

MP Imad John called on the prime minister to exempt the displaced in the Nineveh Plain from paying electricity and water charges for the past three years.

In turn, MP Abdul-Qahar al-Samarrai there is a shortage of large educational cadres in the district of Samarra and the province of Salah al-Din in addition to a significant shortage in hospitals that do not fit with the population and patients, especially since the completion rates of previous hospitals that were under construction has become zero after the destruction during the liberation .

He also called on the Prime Minister to facilitate the return of Iraqis stranded in Turkey, while Mr. Abbadi said that the coordination with the Turkish government to issue passports to return Iraqis to their country.

MP Ahmad al-Masari said that the money allocated to the return of the displaced and the reconstruction of their provinces is insufficient, calling for the allocation of sufficient funds in the budget and allocated funds in military operations to free them.

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi warned that delaying the adoption of the budget will have serious damage to the displaced and to the reconstruction of their liberated and damaged areas and cities.

At the end of the meeting it was agreed to hold a subsequent meeting on Khambas 1/2/2018 to complete the discussions and to reach a final agreement on the formula of the budget for 2018 in order to vote on them.

 

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Iraqi Council of Representatives

31/1/2018

 

http://ar.parliament.iq/2018/01/31/برئاسة-الشيخ-همام-حمودي-عضو-هيئة-الرئا/

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Parliament obliges the Prime Minister to make a written commitment to prevent the budget from being challenged after it is approved

 Baghdad / Mohammed Sabah 
 

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi completes his second negotiating round on the budget law of the current year on Thursday in the House of Representatives meeting with the Sunni forces that demand the inclusion of the federal budget to pay the salaries of employees liberated areas accumulated and cut after the control of Dahesh on their provinces.

Abadi concludes his negotiations with the parliamentary blocs objecting to the federal budget legislation by an evening meeting likely to be held in the government palace with the Kurdish forces to discuss the proportion of the budget of the region and salaries of Peshmerga and staff. The parliamentary forces are working to conclude an agreement with the Prime Minister to write in writing, vowing to amend some paragraphs of the law of the general budget without being challenged before the Federal Court after its approval as a condition of these parties to pass the budget law. 
The House of Representatives decision Imad John said in a statement to (extent) what was agreed with Abadi in the private meeting, which was devoted to discuss the draft federal budget law yesterday, saying, "We agreed with Abadi to hold three meetings with the blocks objecting to pass the draft budget."
The House of Representatives hosted in its session, which voted to be secret and held on Wednesday, the Prime Minister and the advanced staff of the Ministry of Finance to discuss the draft budget law for 2018 and financial challenges. 
"The first of these meetings was with the oil-producing provinces," he said. "It was agreed to include in the budget law a proposal to allocate 5 percent for each oil producing barrel to the oil-producing provinces instead of five dollars." 
The parliamentary blocs gathered their remarks expressing their discontent with some of the provisions of this draft, which exceeded the 35 observations stipulated on the government included in the draft for discussion in the House of Representatives. The observations are focused on petrodollar allocations, reconstruction allocations in the liberated areas, and the budget of the Kurdistan region.
The Christian MP continued his speech by saying that "the government will pay the differences to the oil-producing provinces once the financial crisis is going through Iraq," pointing out that "Abadi will hold two separate meetings on Thursday in the House of Representatives of the deputies of the provinces affected by the supporters and forces of the Kurdistan Alliance." 
He says the prime minister "pledged to the Sunni forces during the session to pay the salaries of employees accumulated during the control of a preacher on their provinces by checking the records and ensure the authenticity of their affiliation to organizations outside the law." 
The deputy from the province of Kirkuk that "the demands of the forces of Kurdistan where a bit of complexity as it carries a political nature, not technical or financial," revealing "the existence of intentions of the parliamentary blocs to write a written agreement with Abbadi to include these proposals in the public budget without being challenged before Federal Court ".
For its part, says a member of the Finance Committee parliamentary Majda Tamimi in a statement to (the extent) that the Committee "held a meeting with the agencies and ministries of finance and planning, and the budget and finance before the advent of the Prime Minister Haider Abadi to Parliament to discuss the problems and observations of blocs and deputies and the possibility of inclusion in the law of the general budget "He said. 
The government has rejected all the observations and amendments sent by the Presidency of the Parliament to include in the budget law of 2018, considering it as personal and electoral demands that increase the public debt and reflected negatively on the increase deficit. Al-Tamimi describes the discussion of the federal budget with the advanced cadres of the Ministry of Finance and the Speaker of the House of Representatives with the "positive" order and says that it "resolves all the differences that stand in the way of passing the law," stressing that "
The budget of 2018 faces a similar fate to the budget of 2014, as it threatens objections by various parliamentary parties to be the next fiscal year without a budget. "The House of Representatives is afraid to add materials to the draft budget and repeat the scenario followed by the government in the budget in 2017, the Federal Court of all transfers made by the House of Representatives on the budget of 2017, valued at B280 billion dinars. 
and came out of the Finance Committee meeting with Kelly Finance and planning ministries not agreed to add any paragraph to the draft federal budget law for the year 2018 due to financial distress External debt on the rise of the Iraqi state , which exceeded $ 115 billion.
The member of the Finance Committee Abdul Qadir Omar (range) about "significant difficulties facing the parliament to conduct transfers in the sections of the budget as a budget of salaries, not services," stressing that "the government did not take any observations from the parliamentary blocs." 
The federal budget was estimated at 108 trillion dinars, with an expected deficit of 13 trillion dinars. The share of the Kurdistan region decreased from 17% to 12.67% only. Meanwhile, Deputy Speaker Hamam Hamoudi, on Wednesday, continued to discuss the budget in the presence of Prime Minister Haider Abadi. 
Hamoudi said in a statement to his press office on the sidelines of his meeting to discuss the budget, "The discussion of the budget continues to (Thursday) in the presence of Abadi and deputies from the representatives of oil-producing provinces, and the liberation of terrorism, and representatives of the Kurdistan region as well as the presence of the Finance Committee."
The deputy speaker of parliament, "This came after the conclusion of an initial meeting held in the House of Representatives with the Finance Committee in the presence of Abadi and representatives of the Ministries of Finance and Planning and Representatives of representatives of the provinces concerned." 
Hamoudi expressed his hope to reach acceptable formulas from all parties mentioned in order to resolve the problems in the budget, pointing out that "we have seen positive positions by the Prime Minister and the deputies concerned to reach solutions that will accelerate the adoption of the budget as soon as possible."

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Parliamentary Finance: Things are moving quickly towards the adoption of the budget

Editorial date: 2018/2/2 9:12 • 376 times read

[Ayn-Baghdad] 
A member of the Finance Committee parliamentary Majida Tamimi, for overcoming many obstacles to the adoption of the general budget for 2018.

Tamimi said in a statement that "the Finance Committee continues to hold a series of meetings to listen to the requests of the political blocs," noting that "the meetings also continue with the advanced staff of the Ministries of Finance and Planning in the presence of the Prime Minister." 
Tamimi added that "the Finance Committee also met with the first and second deputies to the Speaker of the House of Representatives in the presence of the heads of political blocs and a number of deputies representing various provinces," noting that "everyone agreed to overcome controversial articles and accelerate the legislation of the general budget of the country." 
Tamimi said "overcome many of the obstacles to the adoption of the budget during these meetings," pointing out that "things are going well towards the adoption of the budget."
The House of Representatives witnessed in the past two days intensive movement and continuous meetings between the parliamentary blocs to resolve differences on the financial budget for 2018, in the presence of Prime Minister Haider Abadi for two consecutive days to parliament to accelerate the adoption of the budget.

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These are the demands of the forces in the budget

Release Date: 2018/2/2 9:20 • 365 times read

(Baghdad: al-Furat News) revealed the Finance Committee parliamentary demands of the coalition of Iraqi forces in the draft financial budget law for 2018.

Committee member Magda Tamimi said in a statement that "the parliamentary finance committee is conducting extensive discussions with the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance and the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Planning to amend some controversial material in the public budget and the deputies of the Alliance of power requests to amend some of the budget items to resolve controversial issues." 
And showed that the requests of the Union of forces were represented in the following: 
1 - distribution of cash in place of food supplies that have not been handed over to the residents of the provinces and areas that were under the control of gangs Da'ash terrorist. 
2 - The obligation of the federal government to transfer the powers contained in Law No. 21 of 2008 and its amendments to the provinces of Iraq, except for the Kurdistan region and obligate the Ministry of Finance to take the necessary measures to apply this article.
3 - Reallocation of funds allocated to the Fund for the Reconstruction of the liberated areas of previous years, which was not disposed of for any reason and added to the funds allocated to the Fund for this year. 
4 - Rotate the allocations of the displaced for 2016 saved in the form of secretariats for the displaced and add to the allocations of the current fiscal year of the areas under the control of the gangs and called for the terrorist to restore stability to be distributed according to the proportion of population of these areas. 
5- The government shall pay the salaries of the security personnel who are audited in terms of security in the governorates and regions that have been subjected to terrorist gangs

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On 1/29/2018 at 4:45 AM, yota691 said:

the provinces producing oil and gas demands to ensure their financial rights in the budget law, especially with regard to the paragraph petro dollars and additional imports," noting that "these problems can be solved through the provision of the central government financial guarantees to these provinces to complete their projects and stop the effects of the effects Continuing oil operations. "

 

Thats why these moron need HCL really quickly. Without it, everybody will say that they can steal oil money without getting caught because they say that is their right for that money.