Six points of disagreement impede the adoption of the Iraqi budget

[yota691]

15-01-2019 10:54 AM

Parliamentary Elections: Changes in the Budget

 

 

 

 

 Baghdad :

A member of the Committee on Economy and Investment Representative Nada Shaker Jawdat, on Tuesday, the most prominent changes that took place on the law of the budget in 2019, considering that the budget cleared the liberated provinces through increased investment funds .

 "The changes made to the budget law are very superficial and will not affect the economic reality during the current year," Jawdat told The News .

She added that 'joy in the budget is the allocation of additional funds for the reconstruction of the liberated provinces and the development of infrastructure, as well as oil-producing provinces '.

 "The foreign debt and its payment is an impediment to increasing investment spending and the mere operation," she said, noting that 'Parliament seeks to install all employees of contracts within the budget '.

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Explain all the delays to the folks that used to live in that neighborhood in the posted article & pic above by Yota.

Edited January 15, 2019 by 10 YEARS LATER

[Pitcher]

Defense allocations 19x more than provinces' development: MP

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National Wisdom Movement MP Hassan Fadam asserted that the share of the Ministry of Defense in the 2019 budget is equivalent to nineteen times the money allocated to the development of the Iraqi provinces.

The parliament is working continuously to finalize the draft of the budget during the current month, Fadam said, revealing that there is an intention to reduce or cancel the loans completely and rely on budgetary allocations.

With the problems accompanying the formation of Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi’s government, the state budget has hit a serious deficit, as the 2019 FY budget deficit jumped to 113 percent, according to MP Laila Mahdi al-Tamimi in late December.

 

https://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/Story/35218/Defense-allocations-19x-more-than-provinces-development-MP

[mr.unlikely]

7 hours ago, 10 YEARS LATER said:

Explain all the delays to the folks that used to live in that neighborhood in the posted article & pic above by Yota.

I agree 10YL. The thing is, they spent 40 billion dinar cleaning that neighborhood up last year.

[yota691]

Income tax warning in Iraq: targeting employees and evading the rich

 

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Afik News / warned MP Nassif, what she described as the absence of justice in the income tax, which directly deducted from the staff, and said that the rich and high-income class will evade them. 
"It is regrettable that there is no justice in the income tax paid by the low-income people and the rich are evading it. They are deducted directly from the salaries of the employees, while many rich and high-income people evade them. They evade taxation by various means such as bribery and deception, Some are challenging the state and undermining the rule of law. " 
She explained that "bribes facilitated tax evasion in the private sector. Is it reasonable that a doctor records in the tax disclosure the inspection fee three thousand dinars and claims that the number of patients visiting his clinic in the day does not exceed five?
Nassif stressed that "achieving justice in the completion of income tax will contribute to filling the budget deficit," calling on the regulators to "follow the assessors and account for the weak souls manipulating figures." 
In the same context, MP Naseef called on the Prime Minister to open an investigation into the private appointments that are contrary to the law, which aims to form a spider web network of one of the advisers, including one of the appointed figures in the Tax Authority.

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A deputy reveals the attempt of an adviser to form a network functional spider illegal

02:34 - 16/01/2019

 

 

 

BAGHDAD - Mawazine News 
warned the high-Nassif, Wednesday, the absence of justice in the income tax, which directly deducted from the staff, while evading the rich and high-income earners. While the Prime Minister demanded an investigation into the private appointments that are contrary to the law, which aims to form a spider web network for one of the advisers. 
"It is regrettable that there is no justice in the income tax paid by the low-income people and the rich are evading it," Nadeem said in a statement received by Mawazine News. "It is deducted from the salaries of employees directly, while many rich, Companies, they evade tax by various means such as bribery and deception, some of them defying the state and underestimate the rule of law.
She explained that "bribes facilitated tax evasion in the private sector. Is it reasonable that a doctor records in the tax disclosure the inspection fee of three thousand dinars and claims that the number of patients visiting his clinic in the day does not exceed five? With our great pride of doctors committed to their principles. 
Nassif stressed that "achieving justice in the completion of income tax will contribute to filling the budget deficit," calling on the regulators to "follow the assessors and account for the weak souls manipulating figures." 
She called on the deputy prime minister to "open an investigation into the private appointments that are contrary to the law and which are aimed at forming a spider web network for one of the advisers. Among these appointments is one of the appointed figures in the Tax Authority."

[nannab]

It amazises me gow they keep their investigations,committee's  not to mention

their crises. Oh wait they don't.   

[nannab]

12 minutes ago, nannab said:

It amazises me gow they keep their investigations,committee's  not to mention

their crises. Oh wait they don't.   

 

This is what I get with no glasses  

[yota691]

Parliamentary Finance: Continuing meetings to end the budget paragraphs and offer to vote soon

03:58 - 16/01/2019

 

 

 

Baghdad - Mawazine News 
The parliamentary finance committee confirmed on Wednesday that it is continuing its meetings to end the paragraphs of the federal budget for 2019. 
A member of the Committee on the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Sherwan Mirza Lamlan said in a statement to convey the flags of his party and read by the (Mawazin News) "The meetings of the Finance Committee Parliamentary Continuing to end the paragraphs of the federal budget. " 
He added that "the Parliamentary Finance Committee seeks to end the paragraphs of the budget and submit them to the House of Representatives as soon as possible to vote on them." 
It is noteworthy that the presidency of the Council did not include draft draft law for the general budget for 2019 on its agenda in recent meetings and because of the existence of sharp political differences on some of its items.

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 - there’s a confidence builder. Any damn day now.

 

Well, tick fricking tock ....only 11 1/2 months til the end of the year-can ya feel the pressure ? 

 

[Pitcher]

2019 budget law to be submitted to Parliament in 10 days: MP

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Parliament's Finance Committee member Mahasen Hamdoun, on Wednesday, said that the national budget law for 2019 FY will be finalized and submitted to the Parliament within ten days.

The finance committee still is still discussing the law of the general budget with the relevant governmental committee, Hamdoun said, adding that so far, no decision has been taken to change the articles of the budget law.

The Finance Committee tries to reduce some of the shares of some ministries in the new budget and to increase that of other ministries that need more allocations, Hamdoun said.

She added that the finance committee, however, has not yet decided to reduce the share of any ministry in the budget.

Concerning the price of the oil barrel in the 2019 budget, Hamdoun said it is still $56, adding that it cannot be changed because measures have been taken based on this price.

Although the discussion of the new budget has been included in the agenda of most of the recent parliamentary sessions, it has not yet been finalized and voted on.

 

https://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/Story/35255/2019-budget-law-to-be-submitted-to-Parliament-in-10-days-MP

[TexasMike1958]

10 days.....literal or prophetic days?????

[Pitcher]

Soon, any day now, but first it will be delayed

[DinarDavo]

19 minutes ago, TexasMike1958 said:

10 days.....literal or prophetic days?????

 

There's a new app coming out that converts literal days into "camel years".......    

 

[haymon]

36 minutes ago, DinarDavo said:

 

There's a new app coming out that converts literal days into "camel years".......    

 

That is so funny....

In dog beers, I've only had one......

 

 

[Donziman]

Submitted in ten days.....Hope this goes better than the May election results

that are still not settled. I feel a vacation coming on  lol

[Mary B]

Parliamentary finance begins writing the budget law in preparation for its approval

 

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money and business Economy News Baghdad  The Finance Committee in the House of Representatives to prepare and write the final versions of the draft federal budget law for 2019 after the end of the file of additions to all ministries and government institutions and independent bodies, expected to introduce the bill to vote by the end of next week.  The number of observations made by the members of the House of Representatives on the law of the general budget to the Finance Committee of the parliament about "300" note relating to the total allocations for the development of the regions and funds allocated for the reconstruction of western cities and budgets of the provinces of Basra and Babel and Wasit and oil exports from the Kurdistan region.  The member of the Finance Committee in the House of Representatives Jamal Couger in an interview with the "range", and his follow-up "Economy News", that his committee "ended the file hosting all institutions and ministries of the State, including deputies and parliamentary blocs and listened to their comments on the federal budget law for 2019." Last week, the Parliamentary Finance Committee set the dates of meetings to host representatives of government ministries and independent bodies and set a time limit for ending this file for five days to discuss the budget law with these government institutions.  The Cougar that "the parliamentary finance in the re-drafting of the Federal Budget Law after receiving a large number of observations by these government institutions and members of the House of Representatives," wishing to "finish all formulations in the next few days."  The House of Representatives ended the first and second reading of the federal budget law for the year 2019 after the government committee and parliament, which was formed earlier in the amendments described briefly on the draft budget law. The head of the Kurdistan Islamic Union bloc said that "the re-wording includes the conduct of transfers in the sections of the budget disbursement from one ministry to another to ensure reduction," believing that "parliamentary finance needs about a week to almost complete the preparation of the budget law and submit it to vote in the House of Representatives."  The federal budget allocated large sums of money to the ministries of defense and interior compared to ministries and other state institutions and investment budgets, where the parliamentary finance committee will conduct transfers in the doors of the exchange of these ministries.  The Kurdish MP pointed out that his committee "will enter into the discussion of controversial articles in the budget law, ranging from 20 to 22 articles in the draft law," noting that "the most controversial topics are the funds allocated for the development of the province, and budgets of security ministries with two ministries of sovereignty that arrive ) To more than 60% of the size of the general budget. The draft federal budget law for 2019, sent by the Council of Ministers to the House of Representatives on October 24, 2018 of (52) material. "  The federal budget for 2019, about 106 trillion Iraqi dinars, approved in the bulk of its revenues on the export of crude oil at the price of A fixed amount of (56) dollars per barrel with an export rate of more than 3 million and 800 thousand barrels per day, of which 250 thousand barrels through the Kurdistan region of Iraq The  MP said in his speech that "the Finance Committee entered into serious meetings devoted to the discussion and preparation of the budget law Federal ", explaining that" the redrafting of the law oThese thier points of contention within the Finance Committee. " He notes that "the total observations of the members of the House of Representatives on the budget law reached about (300) note submitted to the Finance Committee, which will be included in the budget law as well as observations of ministries and independent bodies and other departments in the Iraqi state."  And confirms the Kurdish MP, devoid budget of job grades law with the exception of the Ministry of Electricity contracts. "  Allocated the proposed budget , the amount of 133 trillion dinars to be spent on repayment of internal and external debt, and 33 trillion dinars for government projects, and 100 trillion current expenditure.  Source: Range Views 106   Date Added 17/01/2019 http://economy-news.net/content.php?id=15105

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The three presidencies agree to speed up the budget legislation and the required amendments

07:17 - 16/01/2019

 

 

 

BAGHDAD - Mawazine News 
The three presidencies agreed during their meeting on Wednesday on the need to speed up the adoption of the budget law for 2019 and the required amendments. 
"A meeting of the three presidencies held at the Peace Palace in Baghdad included President Barham Salih, Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi and Speaker of the House of Representatives Mohamed Halboussi," a presidential statement received. 
The statement stressed that "it was agreed between the three presidencies to accelerate the adoption of the general budget in accordance with the amendments required to strengthen the work of state institutions in providing the necessary services for citizens." 
He added that "the two sides exchanged views on political and security issues, close the visions and understandings between the political parties, the need to distance the street from the tensions and crises between the political parties and adopt the language of dialogue and avoid escalation of the media."
He stressed "the participants on the importance of efforts and strengthen joint action for the success of the government program through the support of the Prime Minister in his duties, and follow-up the file of vacant ministries to complete the formation of the Cabinet Cab, stressing commitment to the constitutional entitlements for the next stage." 
"The meeting reviewed the results of the visit of the Jordanian monarch and high-level delegations from several countries to Iraq, stressing Iraq's pivotal role in establishing peace and stability in the region, as well as the openness policy adopted in its relations with brotherly and friendly countries based on respect for national sovereignty and interests. Mutual. " 
He concluded that "the latest developments and developments on the Arab and regional are discussed"

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Surrogate: The budget of the government program crashes

12:19 - 17/01/2019

 

 

 

BAGHDAD - Mawazine News 
called on the Alliance Sosron, on Thursday, the parliamentary blocs to give priority to the national interest on the financial budget and not subject to political auctions, stressing that the delay in the adoption of the budget will disrupt the government program. 
The official spokesman of the coalition, Qahtan al-Jubouri, in a statement received / Mawazine News / a copy, "The House of Representatives has not been able so far to resolve the financial budget law for this year, at a time of increasing suffering of citizens, especially those with limited income." 
"The continuation of such methods at the level of the budget is absolutely consistent with the amount of promises made by the political forces before the elections, which puts them all without exception in front of the Iraqi street, which may not wait long."
The spokesman said that "any delay in the adoption of the budget means delaying the implementation of projects, especially investment, as well as the completion of sluggish projects that need to launch the required financial allocations, which means that the government can not implement its government program voted by the House of Representatives before the government gained confidence" .anthy 29 / a 43

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Parliamentary finance determines the budget problems and reveals a reduction in its deficit

Editorial Date: 2019/1/17 11:11 • 322 times read

{Baghdad: Al-Furat News} The Finance Committee identified problems that hinder the adoption of the general budget for the year 2019.

"There are three main problems that prevent the adoption of the budget for the year 2019, and is the problems of the agreement between the Kurdistan region and the federal government," pointing out that "the proportion of Kurdistan region in the budget 12.67%." 
"The problems concern the liberated provinces and their oil-producing counterparts. These problems are on the agenda." 
Haj pointed out that "there is a vision and a desire to resolve outstanding problems and therefore will be presented to the House of Representatives budget law and passes after agreement on the points of contention." 
He pointed out that "the proportion of the budget deficit 27 trillion dinars, and the intention of the Committee to reduce it to 22 trillion dinars."
The Presidency of the Council of Representatives, decided last Tuesday, to stop the leaves and the removal of deputies until the adoption of the budget of 2019, and also suspended the work of all meetings of subcommittees and fact-finding committees until the completion of the draft budget law in order to focus efforts and accelerate the adoption.

[yota691]

URGENT A meeting of the three presidencies and Saleh confirms the speedy adoption of the budget and the required amendments

Editorial Date: 2019/1/16 19:15 • 763 times read

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A meeting of the three presidencies took place at the Peace Palace in Baghdad on Wednesday, which included President Barham Salih, Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi and House Speaker Mohammad Halboussi.

The meeting, according to a presidential statement received by the agency {Euphrates News} a copy of it, "views on political and security issues and the convergence of visions and understandings between political parties, and the need to keep the street away from tensions and crises between political parties and the adoption of the language of dialogue and avoid escalation. 
He pointed to "the agreement between the three presidencies to expedite the adoption of the general budget in accordance with the amendments required to strengthen the work of state institutions in providing the necessary services for citizens." 
The participants also stressed the importance of exerting efforts and strengthening joint action for the success of the government program through supporting the Prime Minister in his duties, and follow-up the file of vacant ministries to complete the formation of the ministerial cabin, stressing commitment to constitutional entitlements for the next stage.
The meeting reviewed the results of King Abdullah's visit and high-level delegations from several countries to Iraq, stressing Iraq's pivotal role in establishing peace and stability in the region, as well as the openness policy adopted in its relations with brotherly and friendly countries based on respect for national sovereignty and mutual interests. 
They also discussed the latest developments and developments on the Arab and regional arenas

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The three presidencies meet to keep the Iraqi street away from tensions and crises and avoid media escalation

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The three presidencies held a meeting at the Peace Palace in Baghdad, which included President Barham Salih, Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi and Speaker of the House of Representatives Mohammed Halabousi, to exchange views on the issue. And the convergence of visions and understandings between the political parties, and the need to keep the street away from tensions and crises between the political parties and adopt the language of dialogue and avoid escalation of the media. 
The Office added that "the agreement between the three presidencies stipulated the acceleration of the adoption of the general budget in accordance with the amendments required to strengthen the work of state institutions in providing the necessary services for citizens," stressing "the importance of efforts and promote joint action for the success of the government program through the support of the Prime Minister in His duties, and follow-up the file of vacant ministries to complete the formation of ministerial cab. " 

The meeting also reviewed the results of the visit of the Jordanian monarch and high level delegations from several countries to Iraq, stressing Iraq's pivotal role in establishing peace and stability in the region, as well as the policy of openness adopted in its relations with brotherly countries. And friendly relations based on respect for national sovereignty and mutual interests, as well as the latest developments and developments on the Arab and regional arenas. " Finished

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Kurdish blocs set two conditions in exchange for passing the budget of 2019

14:40 - 17/01/2019

 

 

  

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Revealed a member of the Finance Committee on the Kurdistan Alliance MP Ismail Kouger, on Thursday, the identification of Kurdish blocs two conditions in exchange for passing the law of the general budget for the current year 2019, stressing that the proportion of the province in the budget is not fixed.

"The issue of the region's share of the budget is still not settled because it is a permanent issue that emerges every year without any resolution or set a fixed criteria for the region's share of the annual budget," Kujer said in a statement.

He added that "the coalition was surprised when the government of former Prime Minister Haider Abadi, the proportion of the province budget this year 12.67%, which is not true, where the proportion of the province in the budget last year 13.72," noting that "the Kurds rejected this percentage categorically."

"The Kurdistan Alliance put before the parliament two options to ratify the first budget refer to the previous political agreement on the proportion of 2018 or proceed to the census and the commitment of the governments of the region and the center of the setoff and therefore either restore the government excess ratio or get added money depending on the results of the census "He said. Ending / 25

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16-01-2019 02:28 PM

Parliamentary Finance: 20% of the budget funds go to repay debts

 

 

 

 

Baghdad

The Parliamentary Finance Committee revealed on Wednesday the commitment of the Iraqi government to pay 25 trillion dinars of the budget as debts to oil companies and loans of farmers and other debts, noting that the total budget is 133 trillion dinars.

The member of the Committee Faisal al-Issawi said in a statement to the   'news' that 'the budget of 2019, a large deficit and borrowing internal and external and not targeted in its terms.'

He added that 'the proportion of 90% of the budget is repeated and 10 percent new additions and is unclear whether it is investment or service'.

 "The budget of 2019 amounted to 133 trillion dinars, including 15 trillion debt, in addition to the dues of oil licensing companies to receive payments of more than 25 trillion.

"The inflation rate in Iraq is 2 percent and there are fears of increasing it because of the siege period before 2003, which is delayed in that the budget of 2019 where the vision may lead to inflation," stressing the 'need for a new philosophy of the budget'.

He added that 'more than 60 percent of salaries and expenses and what remains investment targeting the poor and the unemployed and care, in addition to the establishment of service projects and complete projects with high completion rates.'

He said Issawi that 'more than 90 percent of Iraq's money from hard currency go abroad because of the import of everything.'

He disclosed that '$ 68 billion sales in the central bank for the dollar auction came out of them 64 billion for import and returned as goods flooded the market'.

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17-01-2019 10:22 AM

Kharbit for "News": the budget focused on security and neglected the services of citizens

 

 

 

 Baghdad

  A member of the Committee on Economy and Investment Parliamentary Abdullah al-Kharbit, on Thursday, the focus of most of the budget resources for the year 2019 on issues of security and security ministries, noting that the budget neglected all vital issues and service .

 Kharbit said in a statement to the 'news', that 'Iraq is a military state because of the volume of spending on the security and military as the budget focused on 2019 on defense and the interior and the crowd and neglected vital sectors and services of interest to the citizen '.

He added that 'budget funds go without return to the government that Iraq imports all goods in dollars and hard currency without any internal production,' noting that 'Iraq is facing difficult options as it is a case of dumping of Iranian and Turkish goods, making him unable to produce anything .'

He added that 'the government must support investment to encourage investors through the facilities and ensure the success of his project', saying that 'Iraq is funny in the subject of investment where not even granted the visa to the investor '

Kharbit called for benefiting from the experiences of Malaysia and the successful countries in building investments and bringing in developed international companies that evaluate their industrial projects and production laboratories from within Iraq .