Parliamentary Finance: The budget will be ready for voting next Monday
The Parliamentary Finance Committee clarified, today, Friday, that all the difficulties that went through auditing the country’s general budget, except for the share of Kurdistan, have been overcome, pointing out that next Monday’s session in which the budget will be ready for voting, especially after a meeting that will be held tomorrow between the leaders of the political blocs and the committee.
“The budget is currently in its recent negotiations, and most of the financial allocations have been agreed upon, with the exception of the share of the Kurdistan region,” said a member of the committee, Representative Jamal Cougar, in a statement to “Tigris” .
He added that “the next meetings of the committee will discuss non-oil revenues such as collection and income taxes such as taxes for mobile phones and others . ”
Cougar stressed that “next Monday’s session in which the budget will be ready for voting pending the completion of the meeting of the leaders of political blocs with the Finance Committee in order to agree to pass it and determine the proportion of the Kurdistan region in it . ”
The Finance Committee had confirmed to the “Tigris”, yesterday, Thursday, that it authorized its head, MP Haitham al-Jubouri, to negotiate with the leaders of political blocs in the terms of the budget. The meeting of the two parties will be held tomorrow, Saturday.