Six points of disagreement impede the adoption of the Iraqi budget

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Special Parliamentary "clarifies" the fact that the allocation of funds to the provinces of Kurdistan out of the budget

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22/01/2019

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Fatah Alliance member Fath Ahmed Kanani revealed on Tuesday the truth of the news that talked about financial allocations to the provinces of Kurdistan from outside the federal budget, pointing out all the additional allocations are within the budget.

He said Kanani for "trend Press", "The number of central and southern provinces in addition to the northern provinces allocated additional funds, but within the federal budget, and these allocations are for the completion of some projects and is a support for the infrastructure of those provinces."

Kanani denied, "These allocations are out of the budget. These came from the sense of responsibility and the need of these provinces to develop their infrastructure, and tried to moderate the distribution of moderate. "

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Kurdish blocs discuss with the presidency of the parliament the budget law and receivables of the region

06:46 - 21/01/2019

 

 

 

Baghdad - Mawazin News 
Vice President of the House of Representatives Bashir Haddad, on Monday, with the Kurdish blocs budget law for the year 2019 and receivables of the region. 
A statement by Haddad Office received a copy of the news that the latter "presided over an expanded meeting of the heads and members of the Kurdish blocs held in the Constitutional Chamber of the House of Representatives." 
"During the meeting discussed several topics and files, primarily the federal budget law for the year 2019 and financial allocations to the provinces of Basra and Nineveh and Muthanna, and receivables of the Kurdistan region and the rest of Iraq's provinces." 
Haddad said, according to the statement, "the need for continued cooperation and coordination and holding meetings and periodic meetings between the members of the Kurdish blocs, to discuss the developments of the situation and laws on the agenda of the meetings to unify positions and visions, and to send positive messages to the Iraqi and Kurdish streets."
He stressed "the importance of intensifying efforts and seeking to prepare a road map to address the problems and outstanding issues between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government in cooperation with the parliamentary blocs represented by the parties to the political process."

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Halabousi heads the meeting of the Finance Committee to discuss the items of the adoption of the budget

10:08 - 21/01/2019

 

 

 

 

 

Baghdad Mawazine News  
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mohamed Halabousi, discussed with the Finance Committee, Monday, the budget items. 
The Information Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, in a statement received / Mawazin News /, that "Halbusi presided over the evening session of the meeting of the Finance Committee to discuss the parliamentary budget items for the year 2019, and commended the efforts of the Finance Committee in the discussions to prepare the budget; 
He added that "the meeting reviewed the financial allocations for the ministries of security, service and economic, and requests from the parliamentary committees competent, to reach agreement on them, also discussed the file transfers of funds to the projects of the provinces." 
"The meeting was discussed in the presence of the Minister of Health, Dr. Alaa Alwan, the needs of the Ministry of medicines and medical equipment." 
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Documents ... proposals to fill the deficit in the budget of 2019 and prevent recourse to external borrowing

Editorial date: 2019/1/21 18:43 • 1165 times read

(Baghdad: Al-Furat News) MP from the Alliance for Reform and Reconstruction Khaled al-Geshmi, a number of proposals to fill the deficit in the budget of 2019 and not go and resort to external borrowing.

"The proposals included reducing the allocations of a number of sections of the operational budget, such as service requirements for all state institutions except for the provinces to 40% of their current value and reduce the allocations of commodity inputs to 40% of their current value except Allocations of the Ministry of Health ". 
"It also included reducing the maintenance of the assets to 30% of the current value, except for allocations of education, health, interior and defense, and reducing the allocation of capital expenditures to 10% of its current value except for the allocations of defense and interior and health and reducing the allocations of grants and subsidies to 20% of their present value, Property and Finance ". 
"This reduction in allocations will not affect the provision of services to the Iraqi citizen and will provide 11 trillion and 451 billion dinars for the budget," he said.

 

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2019/01/22 11:31

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Sawson calls for canceling the article by the budget of 2019 allow the sale and investment of government companies

BAGHDAD / Al-Masala: The parliamentary bloc called on Tuesday, January 22, 2019, to cancel the article in the budget of 2019 allows the sale and investment of government companies.

The head of the bloc, Hassan Aqol, said in a press conference held in the House of Representatives with the participation of the members of the bloc, "Article 14 of the Budget Law, noting that Article 14 provides for the work of ministries not linked to the Ministry to open the door of investment and participation in the private sector that does not entail financial obsession."

He added that "the mass of Asrun demanding Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi and the parliamentary finance write off the article and lift it from the budget," noting that "the article has been raised from the budget because it allows the sale or investment of existing and profitable government companies."

He added that "the role of representatives of the people save the public finance and the function of the state and the government." He pointed out that "interest in the sector and the preservation of people's property is one of the most important goals of the Mass.

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2019/01/22 08:11

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Parliamentary finance to reduce the expenses of the three presidencies and embassies

BAGHDAD / Masala: A member of the Finance Committee parliamentary Thamer Ghadban, Tuesday 22 January 2019, that there is a tendency to the Committee and the Parliament in general to reduce the expenses of the three presidencies and some ministries and embassies, and the provinces with the funds they need.

"The budget is rational and there is nothing new in it, but the financial committee is trying to pressure expenses, reduce spending and increase revenues," Ghassban said in a statement. "There is a tendency in the coming period to reduce the dependence on oil to feed the budget with money and move towards other revenues. Non-oil, in support of the budget. "

He explained that "the Finance Committee and the Parliament in general directed towards reducing spending in some ministries and the three presidencies and embassies, in order to support the provinces through the allocation of sufficient funds for the purpose of fulfilling their duties through reconstruction projects and the payment of accumulated debt."

"The support of the provinces in the budget, because they did not receive their budgets during the war on the grounds why the decline in the level of service, and the urgent need for new projects."

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Tuesday 22 January 2019 01:21 PM

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Parliamentary Finance announces the establishment of a fixed mechanism to question ministers at the end of each year

BAGHDAD / A member of the parliamentary finance committee, Adnan al-Zarfi, revealed on Tuesday the status of a permanent mechanism to question the minister, whose ministry did not achieve financial revenues to the state treasury at the end of each year.

"The Parliamentary Finance Committee has set a new vision and this mechanism will be fixed. At the end of each year, the minister whose ministry has not achieved financial revenues will be questioned by the treasury of the federal state," al-Zarafi told "Iraq News".

He added that "this vision was put in order to assess the work of state institutions and the adjustment of financial management, and away from the method of granting the ministries trillions of dinars of oil revenues, which are originally the people's money and these ministries are useless and there is no

economic feasibility and were not productive so that can provide funds to the state treasury." End 3

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Basra Council: budget of 2019 Gbnt right to maintain significantly

 

money and business Economy News _ Baghdad The head of the administrative and legal committee in the Basra provincial council Ahmed Abdul Hussein, on Tuesday, that the federal budget for the year 2019 has buried the right of Basra significantly. Abdul Hussein said in a statement received "economy News" a copy of it, that 'the Council of Ministers exceeded the rights of Basra according to Law 21, which was approved by the House of Representatives'. He explained that 'the draft federal budget law, which is now studying in the House of Representatives, and through our knowledge of the current draft, we saw that it is a copy of the previous budgets and there is no amendment and no addition'. He pointed out that 'the next budget is an operational budget more than an investment or service budget, and therefore the economic vision of the country that it will remain in the depletion of resources without development or increase, both oil and non-oil resources'. He added that 'most of what is in the budget is oil imports, funded from Basra, but the size of allocations Basra of the federal budget, which will reach more than 130 trillion, less than 1% of them, while the share of other areas such as Kurdistan and others take 17% or more' . Views 20   Date Added 01/22/2019

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Six points of disagreement impede the adoption of the Iraqi budget

 

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The Financial Committee of the parliamentary, on Tuesday, the most prominent points of disagreement on the draft law of the budget for the year 2019, the Iraqi state. 
"The main points of contention over the budget of 2019, is about the price of a barrel of oil, and about the amount of exports, in addition to the dollar exchange rate." 
"The differences are also related to the allocation of financial allocations, the neglect of some of the affected provinces, in addition to the dispute over the share of the Kurdistan Region of the budget of the Iraqi state," he said, adding that "work is continuing to address these points of contention, and the solution will be soon very".
The House of Representatives has concluded, in its previous sessions, reading and discussing the draft federal budget law for the year 2019, amid the objections of a number of representatives of the Kurdish and Arab forces, and from various political forces, while the President of Parliament Mohammed Halbusi continued to hold meetings of the Council during the month to Budget approval.

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Energy Prosecution: Iraq must rely on these resources to lend its budget .. What is it?

03:34 - 22/01/2019

 

 

 

Special - balance News 
confirmed that the Committee on Energy and Oil parliamentary, Tuesday, that there are several non - oil resources should depend on Iraq to supplement the budget, while noting that the most prominent ports and religious tourism. 
"Iraq depends heavily on oil to build its budget, and this may cause a problem, due to the instability of oil prices globally, which may lead to budget deficit," said Hammam al-Tamimi, a member of the committee. 
He added that "Iraq must rely on other non - oil resources, including religious tourism, ports and border trade, agriculture and industry to supplement the budget and increase revenues." 
It is scheduled that the parliament will discuss the current draft general budget law and vote in a session next Thursday. 
According to the draft budget, the value of 130 trillion dinars deficit of up to 22 trillion Danar.anthy 29 / h

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Six points of disagreement impede the adoption of the Iraqi budget[/size]


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The Financial Committee of the parliamentary, on Tuesday, the most prominent points of disagreement on the draft law of the budget for the year 2019, the Iraqi state. 
"The main points of contention over the budget of 2019, is about the price of a barrel of oil, and about the amount of exports, in addition to the dollar exchange rate." 
"The differences are also related to the allocation of financial allocations, the neglect of some of the affected provinces, in addition to the dispute over the share of the Kurdistan Region of the budget of the Iraqi state," he said, adding that "work is continuing to address these points of contention, and the solution will be soon very".
The House of Representatives has concluded, in its previous sessions, reading and discussing the draft federal budget law for the year 2019, amid the objections of a number of representatives of the Kurdish and Arab forces, and from various political forces, while the President of Parliament Mohammed Halbusi continued to hold meetings of the Council during the month to Budget approval.

 

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"The main points of contention over the budget of 2019, is about the price of a barrel of oil, and about the amount of exports, in addition to the dollar exchange rate." 

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2 minutes ago, dinareffic said:

"The main points of contention over the budget of 2019, is about the price of a barrel of oil, and about the amount of exports, in addition to the dollar exchange rate." 

 

[NextYear]

In addition? That should be top priority.

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7 minutes ago, dinareffic said:

"The main points of contention over the budget of 2019, is about the price of a barrel of oil, and about the amount of exports, in addition to the dollar exchange rate." 

Woh 

[DinarDavo]

9 minutes ago, dinareffic said:

"in addition to the dollar exchange rate"

 

Clarification please....

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MPs are likely to approve the budget today .. These are the main points of disagreement

 

{Baghdad: Al-Furat News} The House of Representatives seeks to speed up the adoption of the financial budget for the current year 2019 after it was late than scheduled, amid parliamentary weights to be approved in the parliament session today.
"Differences over the budget have been divided into four types, and there is a parliamentary effort to approve them this week," MP Hassan Khalati, a member of the Alliance for Reform and Reconstruction, told a news briefing. 
He explained that "the first differences on the formulation of the budget is the difference of members of parliament in views, and the second provinces, while the third that each political bloc specific views on some of the material budget, and four differences on the level of components." 
"All the differences were raised in more than one session and the parliamentary finance committee took all the proposals and observations and worked to consolidate them in legal form consistent with the general frameworks in order to put them in the parliamentary sessions allocated to discuss the budget and vote on it."
The dispute over the share of the Kurdistan region of the budget is a dilemma facing parliament every year amid disagreement over the size of the financial allocations for the region. While Kurdish parties demand the allocation of 17 percent of the budget for the region, Baghdad rejects it and says the share is about 12 percent. 
The MP for the construction coalition, Faleh Issawi said in a press statement that "the draft law of the general budget for the year 2019 is hoped to be passed in the session of the House of Representatives scheduled to be held on Tuesday, after resolving some of the issues and observations before the meeting." 
He added that "the share of the Kurdistan region was adopted according to the population census of the region and it is unreasonable to grant Kurdistan more than the entitlement at a time when the cities destroyed by terrorism from poor services and neglect."
In addition to the share of the Kurdistan region calls for the liberated provinces of Nineveh, Anbar and Salah al-Din to provide financial allocations to keep pace with the amount of destruction, which was signed by the military operations against Daqash, especially Nineveh, which is still broken right completely destroyed, while Basra province calls for additional allocations to address the crisis of services and unemployment, Every day in the city for weeks. 
The Speaker of Parliament Mohammad Halbousi held during the past three days a series of meetings with the Finance Committee in the presence of the presence of his deputy, First Hassan al-Kaabi and the hosting of ministers and officials to discuss the acceleration of auditing the doors of the federal budget and its items before being presented in a final form to the House of Representatives and in a manner that meets the needs of ministries, The government program that serves all segments


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46 minutes ago, DinarDavo said:

"in addition to the dollar exchange rate"

 

OK....who's the knuklehead that let the cat out of the bag?  

[Floridian]

Why are they disagreeing about the dollar exchange rate?

The CBI sets the exchange rate.

If the CBI changed the rate, wouldn't Parliament be one of the first to know about it?

 

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6 points of disagreement??  Is that like 

6 degrees of Kevin Bacon?

 

Ugh. 6 points could take years to iron out. 

[Floridian]

Hmmmmm.

These are some of the things I read in  today's news articles:

 

1.  World Economic Forum started today (Tuesday), in Davos.

2.  Abdul-Mahdi announces full control of all border posts.

3.  Wednesday, in Parliament, they will vote on the budget and complete the cabinet.

4.  Parliament will host Abdul Mahdi in session on Thursday.

 

In the words of Synopsis - Could be something, Could be nothing.

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Within 3 months .. Stop the allocations and salaries of all those charged with the management of positions by proxy

06:57 - 22/01/2019

 

 

 

Special - Mawazine News 
MP Salam al-Shammari, on Tuesday, that the inclusion of a paragraph within the budget this year to stop the allocations and salaries of all those charged with the administration of positions by proxy, while noting that this will be over a period of 3 months. 
"We would like to assure the Iraqi people that the Finance Committee has submitted a letter to the Central Bank to suspend the salaries and allowances of all those responsible for running the portfolios, whether they are heads of independent bodies, directors or agents," Al-Shammari told Mawazine News. 
He added that "the salaries and allowances will stop after three months, the period that will be allowed to manage positions by proxy," noting that "this book was included as a paragraph in the budget this year." 
He added that "the budget will be to meet the aspiration of the Iraqi people is service and ambitious."

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The Central Bank reveals an agreement to approve the budget and defend the currency auction

Release date: 2019/1/23 7:40 • 618 times read

{Baghdad: Al-Furat News} The Central Bank of Iraq, an agreement for the approval of the draft financial budget for the year 2019.

"The budget will be approved because most of the points of contention have been agreed," Central Bank adviser Walid Abdul Nabi told AFP. 
"The bank prohibits the exploitation of any customer account and the bank is responsible for compensating for any damage," he added. 
"As a central bank through the sanctions committee, we rely on four rules to limit these crimes," he said. 
Abdul Nabi pointed out that "the Central Bank through the sanctions committee includes specialists in the departments of the bank," pointing out that "the Committee imposed fines amounted to 566 billion Iraqi dinars in respect of the Bank of Baghdad and fines imposed on him for various purposes, including the lack of full documentation and the bank exploited to customers bear All the results and fines imposed on customers. "
He explained that "imports are covered either by a transfer or a document that is an international transaction and the right of all exploiters to account for the bank," revealing "we have more than 760 call on banks to guarantee the rights of customers." 
He stressed that "the Central Bank is not affiliated with the Ministry of Finance and is not bound by the decisions of the Inspector General of the Ministry." 
Abdel-Nabi defended the "daily auction of the central bank, which is selling between 100 to 150 million dollars," noting that "the central bank helped the private sector through this auction." 
"The Iraqi economy was meeting the requirements of the ministries of trade, health, industry and agriculture, but no amount was allocated to the private sector." 
The Central Bank adviser expressed his "astonishment at how the documents of the Central Bank reached the satellite channels and the media," stressing that "
"The bank is an institution founded by fighting Iraqis and defaming them is not true," he said, denying that there were pressures on the bank. 
"The Central Bank noted that the percentage of financial coverage of banks is 11% and increased by 100% and was treated 22% in the settlement of salaries and can be an individual loan easy," noting that "the subject of ironing card for any company aimed at profit and can The first stage is high but decreases in the rest of the stages."

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BAGHDAD / The obelisk: The Central Bank of Iraq, Wednesday, January 23, 2019, an agreement to approve the draft financial budget for the year 2019.

"The budget will be approved because most of the points of contention have been agreed upon," Central Bank adviser Walid Abdel Nabi told media outlets.

"The bank prohibits the exploitation of any customer account and the bank is responsible for compensating for any damage," he added.

"As a central bank through the sanctions committee, we rely on four rules to limit these crimes," he said.

Abdul Nabi pointed out that "the Central Bank through the sanctions committee includes specialists in the departments of the bank," pointing out that "the Committee imposed fines amounted to 566 billion Iraqi dinars in respect of the Bank of Baghdad and fines imposed on him for various purposes, including the lack of full documentation and the bank exploited to customers bear All the results and fines imposed on customers. "

He explained that "imports are covered either by a transfer or a document that is an international transaction and the right of all exploiters to account for the bank," revealing "we have more than 760 call on banks to guarantee the rights of customers."

He stressed that "the Central Bank is not affiliated to the Ministry of Finance and is not bound by the decisions of the Inspector General of the Ministry."

Abdel-Nabi defended the "daily auction of the central bank, which is selling between 100 to 150 million dollars," noting that "the central bank helped the private sector through this auction."

"The Iraqi economy was meeting the requirements of the ministries of trade, health, industry and agriculture, but no amount was allocated to the private sector."

The central bank adviser expressed his "astonishment at how the Central Bank's documents reached the satellite channels and the media," stressing that "the Central Bank can not be used for political purposes because it does not deal with individuals."

"The bank is an institution founded by fighting Iraqis and defaming them is not true," he said, denying that there were pressures on the bank.

"The Central Bank noted that the percentage of financial coverage of banks is 11% and increased by 100% and was treated 22% in the settlement of salaries and can be an individual loan easy," noting that "the subject of ironing card for any company aimed at profit and can The first stage is high but decreases in the rest of the stages. "

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National approach: the transfer of funds tens of billions of entertainment headlines and neglected the slice of the martyrs budget

02:34 - 23/01/2019

 

 

 

Baghdad - Mawazin News 
The National Approach bloc, Wednesday, that the budget did not compromise the provinces of the center and south compared to the other provinces by the budget of 2019, pointing to the transfer of funds tens of billions to the titles of entertainment and not necessary while neglected slaughtered martyrs. 
The bloc said in a statement received by "Mawazine News" that "the budget did not compromise the provinces of the center and south compared to other provinces, and did not allocate funds to support the martyrs and treat the wounded, despite the inclusion of entertainment resources in the amounts of transfers." 
She added that "Regarding the paragraph of transfers, we note the following observations, the inequities of the central and southern provinces compared to transfers to other provinces less number and percentage of population, and was required to meet the provinces that have made significant sacrifices in the liberation of the usurped lands.
The bloc referred to the "transfer of funds tens of billions to the addresses of entertainment and not necessary while the segment was neglected martyrs and wounded who made the victory and saved the country and the political process of collapse," demanding "the inclusion of martyrs (100) billion dinars and treat the wounded As a result of the fight against the amount of (100) one hundred billion dinars and is transferred from the doors unnecessary to support the martyrs and wounded. " 
She continued, that "despite our constant demand to review the licensing rounds and lifting the injustice on the Iraqi side, which included those miserable contracts note additional interference contained in Article 24 of the budget authorizes the Ministers of Finance and Planning to pay the dues of companies licensing rounds in kind in the sense of handing over dues from the same oil and this A dangerous shift will jeopardize the Iraqi economy and double the loss of natural wealth, "he said:"
The bloc warned of "the serious repercussions that result from Article 14, which allows the privatization of profitable companies, the state spent on its infrastructure billions of dollars and for many years offer cheap prices to the pioneers of privatization and those supported by their influential partners in the political scene," indicating that "the most serious The amendments to the budget expanded this section to include the oil sector and privatization of the product distribution sector, as if there is a plan to transfer the ownership of natural resources, which stipulated the constitution of the partnership of all Iraqis in ownership and transformed into a limited group to control the grip and control the people and financial resources. 
She pointed out that "
"The Ministry of Communications and the Media Authority are obliged to review mobile phone licenses for previous years and stop the spectrum of mobile phone companies when they fail to pay the financial dues, fines, sales tax and income to the Ministry of Finance," she said. 
And called on the bloc to "cancel the contents contained in Article 11 qua - A, which prevents the appointment in all departments of the state of contracting and we reiterate our demand to add material obliges the Council of Ministers to develop functional grades to the owners of ministries, in addition to fixing contracts and wages in the service wazers, "He said. 
"The borrowing clause included $ 2 billion from the Japan International Cooperation Agency to finance projects with general titles, the details of which were not specified, and the amount of each of these projects was not specified. This makes monitoring of the exchange and the realness of the need impossible. And in many sections of the budget. "
She pointed out that "the budget included in the door of borrowing an amount of (1,150) billion and one hundred and fifty million dollars of Chinese banks and did not mention the projects or doors allocated to those amounts, but the Minister of Finance and Planning to add allocations within the budget of the beneficiary without specifying Or mention the projects that have been submitted, and whether it represents a priority and a realistic need and the amount of the amount for each project or exchange door. "Ended 29 / a 43