An agreement between Al-Kazemi and Al-Barzani that Baghdad will bear the payment of the Kurdistan region's debt

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Launching salaries for presidencies and five ministries in the Kurdistan Region

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The Ministry of Finance and Economy in the Kurdistan Regional Government announced today, Sunday, that it will distribute the salaries of last September to five ministries and the three presidencies on Monday, and thus complete the distribution of salaries for all ministries and government departments in the region.

According to the salary distribution schedule, tomorrow, Monday, the salaries of the month of September will be distributed to the ministries (municipalities, tourism, electricity, agriculture, water resources, culture, youth, construction and housing).

According to the same schedule, tomorrow, Monday, the salaries of the same month will be distributed to the three presidencies (the regional presidency, the parliament presidency and the prime minister).

Thus, the distribution of the salaries of the month of September for all employees will end with a deduction of 18 percent of the salary, and the distribution of the salaries of retirees will follow.

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Kurdistan refers 20 companies to the judiciary on charges of tax evasion

 

 

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Shafaq News / The Ministry of Finance in the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq announced, on Monday, that 20 companies have been referred to the judiciary on charges of tax evasion, promising to pursue all tax evaders.

The General Directorate of Taxes and Real Estate at the Ministry of Finance stated, in a statement received by Shafaq News,   that "more than 20 companies have been referred to the judiciary on charges of tax evasion," noting that "legal measures have been taken against them."

The statement stressed that any company or entity that avoids paying the tax will take all strict legal measures against them and they will face the judiciary with the maximum legal penalties.

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Parliamentary integrity: Al-Kazemi pays 320 billion dinars monthly salaries for the region’s employees

16:43 - 10/19/2020

 

  

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The Parliamentary Integrity Committee revealed, on Monday, that the Al-Kazemi government continues to pay 320 billion dinars monthly salaries to the region's employees without having access to the lists and the names of the employees whether they are real or fake.

A member of the Parliamentary Integrity Committee, Abd al-Amir al-Mayahi, said to "the information" that "teams from the financial control wanted to enter the Kurdistan region and see the lists of real employees, their names, and the region's imports."

He added, "The regional government has banned access to anything, and the government is still paying them salaries without knowing the names."

Al-Mayahi explained that "Al-Kazemi pays monthly salaries to the region’s employees every 30 months at a rate of 320 billion dinars, without the know-how if it actually goes to employees or to the pockets of officials there."

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North Oil: Oil exports from Kirkuk fields are stable at 104,000 barrels per day

 

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energy Economy News - Baghdad A source in the North Oil Company stated that oil exports from the northern Kirkuk fields to the Turkish port of Ceyhan are stable at an average of 104 thousand barrels per day, while indicating that the current production has reached 285 thousand barrels per day . The source said, "The process of pumping oil from the Kirkuk fields to the Turkish port of Ceyhan is stable at an average of 104 thousand barrels per day," indicating that "the export is through the Kurdistan Region pipeline connected to Turkey, and that the pumping operations are stable and there are no technical problems in the daily pumping rates to Turkish port of Ceyhan . He added, "The company exports about 8 thousand and 400 barrels per day to Jordan and is transported from Baiji via tankers to the Jordanian borders," noting that "the daily rate of oil production in the company's fields exceeds 285 thousand barrels per day, and part of it is transferred to local refineries to produce derivatives." Oil. "

Number of observations 149   Date of addendum 10/19/2020

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Kurdish MP: 12 thousand people receive illegal pension salaries in the region

16:22 - 10/21/2020

 

  

The information / Erbil

The head of the Future bloc and Kurdish MP Sarkut Shams al-Din considered, on Wednesday, that the Kurdistan Pension Authority is one of the largest institutions of corruption within the region.

Shams al-Din told / Al-Maaloumah / that “12 thousand people receive retirement pensions with the rank of director general inside the region through illegal means, and most of them are outside Iraq ,” considering that “the retirement authority in Erbil is the most corrupt.”

He added that "these were calculated pension salaries for them through the ruling authority parties in the region, and they were basically not employees within the ministries and institutions, but partisan service was calculated for them, and their salaries were very high, and this is the simplest corruption process inside Kurdistan."

On Monday, the deputy for the parliamentary Change Bloc, Ghaleb Muhammad, revealed that there are more than half a million space employees who receive salaries in the region unlawfully, indicating that the Change Bloc participated in the government in order to reform the political system. Ended 15 p

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Kurdistan pledges the continued reduction of its oil production on the commitment of Baghdad to pay financial dues

2020.10.22 - 14:10

 

Baghdad - People  

The spokesman for the Kurdistan Regional Government, Gutiar Adel, confirmed, on Thursday, Kurdistan’s commitment to reducing its crude oil production in light of the commitment to the decisions of OPEC Plus (+ OPEC) meetings in fair rates commensurate with the quantities of oil produced from its fields.  

  

Gutiar said in a statement, "People" received a copy of it, (October 22, 2020), that "the Kurdistan Regional Government has committed to reducing its crude oil production in light of the commitment to the decisions of OPEC Plus (+ OPEC) meetings at fair rates commensurate with the quantities of oil produced from His fields, "noting that" the region's production of crude oil does not exceed 10% of the total production of Iraq. "  

  

Gutiar stressed that "there is no objection to the regional government to continue with the reduction procedures in accordance with the fair percentage that are agreed upon, provided that the federal government is committed to securing the region's dues to cover its financial expenses in exchange for the oil revenues that it loses as a result of the production reduction, otherwise the region cannot manage its affairs and cover its basic expenses." On top of which are the salaries of his employees. "  

He pointed out that "the amount allocated to part of employees' compensation was also reduced by the Federal Ministry of Finance from 453 billion dinars to 320 billion dinars per month, in addition to the significant decline in non-oil revenues due to the consequences of the (Covid-19) pandemic, as well as the federal government did not spend. Until now, the part devoted to compensation for the region’s employees for months 5, 6 and 7 for the year 2020, ”pointing out that“ this requires the federal government to take into consideration the dire financial crisis that the region has faced since February 2014 after deducting its prescribed share from the federal budget. ”  

  

He explained that "an agreement had already been reached in this regard in Baghdad, on 4/18/2020, between the federal government delegation headed by the Deputy Prime Minister for Energy and Oil Minister, and the regional government delegation headed by the Minister of Finance and Economy, and that agreement was announced in a joint press conference, and confirmed In it, the two sides need to take into account fairness in determining the percentage of reduction in the region’s crude oil production, so that it is based on the quantity of what the region produces in relation to the total production of Iraq, and that this reduction does not cause additional significant financial damages to the region.  

  

On Monday, the oil marketing company SOMO confirmed Iraq's commitment to the agreements concluded with OPEC + to create a balance between supply and demand in global markets.   

The director of the company, Alaa Al-Yasiri, said in a statement to the official news agency affiliated with "Nass", (October 19, 2020), that "Iraq has not requested an exemption from the issue of reducing oil exports, and that the country's commitment to OPEC decisions is a voluntary and moral commitment aimed at creating a balance between supply, demand and control On global oil market prices. "     

He added, "Lack of control over the global oil stockpile leads to a drop in prices, which causes great harm to the crude exporting countries."    

Al-Yasiri said, "The matter of reducing production rates for OPEC countries was discussed before the approval of Iraq, and there are countries that agreed to the agreement out of benefit to be able to sell the barrel at a price of $ 40."    

He continued, "If Iraq requests exemption from the decision to reduce production, this means a breach in the studies prepared in order to create a balance in the global oil market and not achieve the desired goal of stabilizing the price of a barrel, which requires compensation for the shortfall from other countries, and this cannot happen."    

The director of SOMO stated that "the organization discussed the reduction issue with the participating countries to reach the equilibrium stage and divided the reduction rates among those countries."    

He pointed out that "oil prices decreased during the fourth month and reached 9-11 dollars per barrel due to the Corona pandemic, which caused great harm to exporters, which required the intervention of OPEC and countries outside it to agree to reduce production in order to raise prices and control the global market."    

Al-Yasiri stressed that "Iraq is with the agreement and the first stages have been crossed, which is the period of highest commitment and the reduction was by 23% in the past months and now the percentage has become less .. as prices have begun to recover and the price has become satisfactory to all exporting countries."    

He pointed out, "The region did not hand over the percentage of oil equivalent to (250 thousand) barrels per day to the Oil Marketing Company from the crude it exports," noting that "there are high-level discussions between Baghdad and Erbil, and SOMO participated in some of them, where there was a preliminary agreement." However, the region is ready to deliver this percentage and is subject to other agreements with the Ministry of Finance.   

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The region clarifies its contribution to the implementation of Iraq's commitment to the agreement (OPEC Plus)

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{Baghdad: Al-Furat News} The Kurdistan Regional Government made clear regarding the region's contribution to implementing Iraq's commitment to the OPEC Plus agreement.

"The Kurdistan Regional Government has committed to reducing its crude oil production in light of the commitment to the decisions of the OPEC Plus (+ OPEC) meetings at fair rates commensurate with the quantities of oil produced," said the regional government spokesman, Jotyar Adel, in a statement received by the Euphrates News Agency. From his fields. "
He added that "the region's production of crude oil does not exceed 10% of the total production of Iraq, and there is no objection to the regional government to continue the reduction measures in accordance with the fair percentage that are agreed upon, provided that the federal government is committed to securing the region's dues to cover its financial expenditures in return for the oil revenues that it loses." As a result of reducing production, otherwise the region cannot manage its affairs and cover its basic expenses, especially the salaries of its employees.
Adel added, "The amount allocated to part of the compensation for employees by the Federal Ministry of Finance has also been reduced from 453 billion dinars to 320 billion dinars per month, in addition to the significant decline in non-oil revenues due to the consequences of the (Covid-19) pandemic, and the federal government has also not acted. So far, the part devoted to compensation for regional employees for months 5, 6 and 7 for the year 2020.
He pointed out that "this requires the need for the federal government to take into account the dire financial crisis that the region has faced since February 2014, after deducting its prescribed share from the federal budget."
He noted that "an agreement had already been reached in this regard in Baghdad, on 4/18/2020, between the federal government delegation headed by the Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs and Minister of Oil, and the regional government delegation headed by the Minister of Finance and Economy, and this agreement was announced in a joint press conference, In it, the two sides stressed the need to take into account fairness in determining the percentage of reduction in the region’s crude oil production, so that it would be based on the quantity of what the region produces relative to the total production of Iraq, and that this reduction should not cause additional significant financial damages to the region.
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Disputes between Barzani and Talabani's parties over the border crossings

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 Baghdad / Iraq News Network - With the federal government controlling the border crossings in Iraq, to combat corruption, address the problems of entering the forbidden materials, and enhance the government's financial revenues, conflicts between the leaders of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan are due to the attempt to control 3 main ports in the territory of the region, At a time when there are violations disturbing the security situation in Kirkuk governorate. In this context, an informed source within the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan says, “There are major disagreements within the ranks of the Patriotic Union to control 3 main outlets, namely Parviz Khan, Bashmakh, and Haj Omran.” He added, "These differences prompted the President of the Political Council of the National Union, Kosrat Rasoul, to issue an urgent message to the co-chairs of the party, Pavel Talabani and Lahore Sheikh Genki to stop the corruption operations in those outlets."The source pointed out that "there is resentment of the regional government head, Masrour Barzani, about what is happening inside the border crossings with Iran and Turkey, and he called for limiting the administration to the Ministry of Finance in the region." And he indicated, "the continuing disputes over the management of the outlets, will push the Prime Minister, Masrour Barzani, to make comprehensive changes and appoint new managers for those outlets, in an attempt to limit the revenues in the hands of the regional government, but that campaign may be rejected by the National Union, which may consider it a political targeting." With the conflicts that these outlets are witnessing, the security situation in Kirkuk Governorate continues to deteriorate, with the existence of a campaign of assassinations and multiple violations carried out by ISIS in multiple areas of the governorate. The Kurdish parties have demanded work to accelerate the formation of joint chambers between the army and the Peshmerga, due to the increase in security breaches and the seriousness of the security situation inside Kirkuk.

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Kurdistan Parliament: Corona is easier than not paying salaries

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A member of the Education and Higher Education Committee in the Kurdistan Parliament confirmed today, Saturday, that the non-payment of salaries has a greater impact on the educational process than the outbreak of the Corona virus.

A member of the committee, the inclusion of Ashti, according to the media of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, said that "the lack of timely payment of salaries has a greater impact than Corona, on the educational process," noting that "the government in the Kurdistan region, before deciding to start the educational process, must address the issue of delay Paying teachers ’salaries.

He added, "In my opinion, the process of e-learning and complex education is of no use to students, and it is only learned by wasting time."

Ashti pointed out, "It is necessary to start the educational process in the buildings and classrooms in an actual manner, as is the case in other governmental institutions," noting that "the ministries of higher education and education in the Kurdistan Regional Government can develop new plans and reduce the cases of contact between students."

This comes at a time when the Ministry of Education in the Kurdistan Region will issue its decision regarding the current school year, based on the statistics of Covid 19 injuries in the region.

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Barzani's advisor accuses Al-Abadi of stealing $ 45 billion from the Kurdistan budget

14:14 - 11/01/2020

 

  

The information / Baghdad .. The
struggle of Mahmoud, the media advisor in the office of the President of the Democratic Party, Masoud Barzani, attacked, on Sunday, former Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, against the background of his criticism of the recent agreements between Baghdad and Erbil , accusing him of stealing $ 45 billion from the Kurdistan budget.
Mahmoud said in a statement reported by Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper and seen by the information, “It seems that some people still think about the mentality of using the armed forces to settle disputes between the federal government and the regions or governorates, as Mr. Haider al-Abadi did on October 16, 2017, when He used the armed forces to invade Kirkuk and the disputed areas, which are subject to Article 140 of the constitution, which was not implemented due to its policies and the politics of its predecessors.
He explained that "the collusion that Al-Abadi is talking about was between the Iraqis themselves and not a servant with foreign generals and experts, as he did in bringing them to invade Iraqi areas where safe Iraqi citizens, whether in Kirkuk or Sinjar and Khanaqin."
He added that «the regional agreement and the federal government, including what happened in Sinjar, put an end to those wrong behaviors that destroyed this city by bringing in armed elements from foreign countries such as Syria and Turkey, specifically Turkish Kurdistan Workers’ Party fighters.
"Unfortunately, Al-Abadi is still thinking that mentality that led Iraq to this bankruptcy and political failure," Mahmoud said. Four years rule Iraq, he and his predecessors did not advance Iraq An inch forward, but imposed a blockade on the Kurdistan region and stole the region’s share of the federal budget for more than five years, which amounted to about $ 45 billion, ”indicating that“ no Iraqi knows where those billions have gone. ” End / 25

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+11 billion dinar recovered to the public treasury

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+11 billion dinar recovered to the public treasury

 

 

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Shafaq News / The Integrity Commission in Kurdistan Region announced on Sunday recovering more than 11 billion dinars for the public treasury. 

 

The authority said in a statement received by Shafaq News agency that Sulaymaniyah Investigation Directorate for corporate loans has recovered an amount of 11,121,991,800 dinar unpaid debts from companies operating in the governorate.

The spokesman for Kurdistan Regional Government, Gotyar Adel, said last May that according to the decisions issued by Prime Minister Masrour Barzani, the government will not condone anyone who owes financial debts to the government.

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Member of the Kurdistan Parliament: The region will never deliver oil to Baghdad

 

energy Economy News _ Baghdad A member of the Kurdistan Regional Parliament confirmed about the movement of the new generation, Kawa Abdul Qadir, on Thursday, that the regional government will not deliver oil revenues to Baghdad at all. Abdul Qadir said in a press interview, "The regional government has asked the federal government to send the sums without delivering any barrels of oil, especially with the high oil prices on world markets." He added that, "According to the parliament's vote on the law on financing self-deficit, the salaries of employees in the region have become unknown, and the most affected by this dispute is the Kurdish citizen." Abdul Qadir pointed out that "the Kurdistan Regional Government will not hand over the financial revenues to Baghdad, despite its ability to distribute salaries to employees in full without the need to send sums from the federal government, as a result of the amount of exported oil and the revenues of the border crossings, which amount to billions of dinars per day."

Number of observations 114   Date of addendum 11/12/2020

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Kurdistan region employees ... a victim of the political conflict between Baghdad and Erbil

 

A summer resort in the Kurdistan region. "Internet"

Reports Economy News - Erbil The employees of the Kurdistan region, whose number is estimated at about 650 thousand people, have fallen victim to the political conflict between Baghdad and Erbil, over oil revenues, border crossings, fees and taxes, and the Kurdistan Regional Government seeks not to give Baghdad money in exchange for Baghdad that gives it the salaries of employees. The Kurdistan region issues daily, according to the estimates of the Central Ministry of Oil, 437 thousand barrels per day, and the region is not committed to the OPEC Plus agreement, and all these funds go to the regional government, and the regional government refuses to distribute the salaries of employees except after Baghdad has transferred the money. The former prime minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, granted the Kurdistan region their share in exchange for the region did not abide by the agreement signed between Baghdad and Erbil, and the current government continued under the leadership of Mustafa Al-Kazemi despite the Minister of Finance's admission that Baghdad did not control the border crossings and oil, as it transferred 2.4 trillion dinars. The employees in the region want to be linked directly in the capital, Baghdad, after not distributing their salaries during the past months, on the pretext that Baghdad did not hand over money to the region, and Parliament voted yesterday, on the second borrowing law, which stipulates that the region will not give any amount if no barrel oil. An employee in the Kurdistan region, who refused to be named, told Al-Iqtisad News that corruption in the Kurdistan region is very large, and the conflict between Baghdad and Erbil is where we are falling victim, by cutting our salaries, while Kurdish oil revenues go to senior officials in the region. He added that the region is witnessing great economic chaos, as the government has deducted a percentage of salaries in addition to distributing low salaries, calling for Baghdad to control the region’s salaries so that they become similar to the employees of other provinces. On the other hand, the Kurdistan Regional Parliament said, in a press statement, "It is with deep regret that we look at the last step of the Iraqi parliament, as it passed the law to bridge the fiscal deficit without taking into account the principles of coexistence and partnership established in the Iraqi constitution, adopting the majority, without regard for the rights of the people of Kurdistan . "

Number of observations 91   Date of addendum 11/13/2020

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Burhan Al-Maamouri calls for the implementation of "automation" at the border crossings

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 Baghdad: Hoda Al-Azzawi
, the Saeron Coalition, confirmed that suspicions of corruption are still haunting the border crossings, calling for the application of "automation" and electronic collection to reduce corruption in them. The coalition revealed that the real revenues of the outlets amount to more than $ 15 billion annually in the event that the ports are fully controlled.
Head of the Sairun Coalition in Diyala Governorate, MP Burhan Al-Mamouri, said in an interview with Al-Sabah, that "among the conditions of the borrowing law that has been put in place is (automating) border crossings to know the size of the inside and outside, taxes and levy, in addition to the volume of hard currency that is sold for the purpose of import." Noting that "when we compare the volume of imports with selling the currency, it constitutes only 20 percent, and most of that currency is smuggled out of Iraq under the pretext of unreal import." 

Al-Maamouri pointed out that "hard currency is supposed to be sold for the purpose of import, but what happens in the currency auction is that it takes a trade path for some parties, where the dollar is bought at a price of 1180 dinars, for example, and it is sold at a value of 1240 or 1230 dinars, offset by no There is a real import ", suggesting" selling the currency to the citizen directly to bring in revenues for the state, instead of taking the hard currency out of Iraq. "

Al-Maamouri confirms that suspicions of corruption persecute the border crossings, and that it cannot be controlled, especially with the failure to change the employees of the ports who have indicators of corruption, calling for the dismissal of any employee who has these indicators, and that the employee does not remain for more than 4 years in his position, to conduct an operation Rotate as part of port control.

Al-Maamouri stated that “if the control and (automation) of the border crossings are achieved, real and not formally, as is happening now, and we have adopted a real electronic collection between taxes and customs on goods entering and importing, as well as controlling the ports of the Kurdistan region, then the budget will be supplemented by at least 15 One billion dollars annually, "noting that" the Bureau of Financial Supervision and the Parliamentary Financial Committee have complete reports verified with numbers regarding the border crossings and the sums they will provide to the state treasury. "

Al-Maamouri stressed that most of the border crossings "are still loose, and if they were in safe hands, their imports would have covered the financial deficit in the state treasury," adding that "Iraq is an agricultural country with 70% of its lands, but random imports and weak government control over the ports were the reason. President of the deteriorating agricultural reality in the country. "

"The absence of control over the borders and the failure to protect the local product have pushed many farmers to leave their agricultural lands," said the head of the Sairoun coalition in Diyala, noting that "today most of them are looking for a job in the state to sustain their livelihood."

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Domiciliation of salaries for Kurdistan employees

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  Baghdad: Ahmed Abd Rabbo

 

The head of the Future Parliamentary Bloc, Sarkut Shams al-Din, expressed his hope that the draft law on nationalizing the salaries of the region's employees would enter into parliamentary legislation, and become part of the federal budget for the next year.

Shams al-Din said: “Settling the salaries of the region’s employees is a representative national step in the right direction,” indicating that “there are two paths within the Parliamentary Financial Committee for Emiratisation.” He explained that «the first track is through its own law and the other is through the draft federal budget law for 2021», indicating that «the file of resettlement of regional employees’ salaries is a step to block the path to corrupt parties.

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The Kurdistan region is refraining from distributing employee salaries, despite the availability of oil revenues

by Moahmmad Editor Iraq news 8 Hours ago

A source in the Ministry of Finance and Economy announced that the local oil and non-oil revenues were collected to secure the payment of salaries for Kurdistan Region employees, but "the salary disbursement date is linked to the arrival of 320 billion dinars from Baghdad."

On August 15, Baghdad and Erbil reached an agreement to send the federal government 320 billion dinars per month to the Kurdistan Region until the budget law is voted on, for a period of three months.

But the Iraqi parliament approved the law on financing the fiscal deficit on November 12, despite the withdrawal of the representatives of the Kurdish blocs in objection to the article stipulating that the Kurdistan Region’s share of the total actual spending (current and investment project expenditures) be determined after excluding the sovereign expenditures “on the condition that the Kurdistan Region must pay The oil exported from the region and in the quantities specified by the Iraqi Oil Marketing Company SOMO exclusively and the federal non-oil revenues, and in the case of non-commitment of the region, the expenses may not be paid to the region, and the violator of this text bears legal responsibility ”, which threatens the August agreement between the Kurdistan Region and the federal government.

Information obtained from an informed source in the Ministry of Finance and Economy of the Kurdistan Regional Government revealed that the local oil and non-oil revenues were prepared for the purpose of disbursing the salaries of Kurdistan Region employees for the month of October of this year, and the source explained: “There are two sources of salary insurance, the first of which is the revenues "The local oil and non-oil sector has secured 100 billion dinars from domestic non-oil revenues and less than 300 billion dinars from oil revenues."

The informed source in the Ministry of Finance indicated that the Kurdistan Regional Government will not begin to disburse the salaries of its employees until after releasing the amount of 320 billion dinars from Baghdad, or determining the fate of this amount: “The salary disbursement date is linked to determining the fate of the 320 billion dinars by Baghdad.”

Iraq is going through a stifling financial crisis as a result of the collapse of oil prices, the Corona pandemic, and the repercussions of the unstable political situation in the country, amid the failure to approve the current year’s budget.

The Kurdistan Regional Government needs about 895 billion dinars to secure the salaries of its employees in normal conditions, but with 18% of these salaries deducted, the government needs about 754 billion dinars for salaries.

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DESPITE THE AVAILABILITY OF 400 BILLION ... THE KURDISTAN REGION REFUSES TO DISTRIBUTE SALARIES

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Today, Sunday, a Kurdish report revealed that the Kurdistan Regional Government has refrained from distributing salaries to the region’s employees, despite the availability of about 400 billion dinars.

The report, which was published by Rudaw and followed by the news agency, stated that, according to information obtained from sources in the Ministry of Finance and Economy of the Kurdistan Regional Government, the local oil and non-oil revenues were prepared for the purpose of disbursing the salaries of Kurdistan Region employees for the month of October of this year.

The report clarified that "there are two sources of salary security, the first of which is the domestic oil and non-oil revenues. 100 billion dinars of non-oil domestic revenues have been secured and less than 300 billion dinars of oil revenues."

He pointed out that the Kurdistan Regional Government will not start disbursing the salaries of its employees until after releasing the amount of 320 billion dinars from Baghdad, or determining the fate of this amount: "The date for the payment of salaries is linked to determining the fate of the 320 billion dinars by Baghdad."

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Discussing customs procedures and automating border crossings

Tuesday 08 December 2020 16

 

  Baghdad: Morning 

 

The head of the Border Ports Authority, Major General Dr. Omar Al-Waili, and the head of the Baghdad Chamber of Commerce, Firas Rasul Al-Hamdani, examined ways to enhance the reality of work in the ports and update them according to advanced visions, by adopting the advanced and approved work mechanisms in the countries of the developed world. The meeting can be described as fruitful, and we discussed with the head of the Border Ports Authority the customs procedures, the automation mechanism at the border crossings, the imposition of the rule of law, and the change in the reality of the workings of the ports in a way that enhances the country's economic capabilities.

Al-Hamdani pointed out, "The issue of reviewing the fees paid to the border crossings, as well as reviewing the instructions for importing gold, the approved mechanisms, and standing at the demands of the specialized commercial family in this regard, and the issue of facilitating the passage of Iraqi trucks and finding quick solutions to solve this problem was raised."