Parliamentarians: 13 trillion dinars, the total non-oil revenue projected in the budget

Il Giornale January 17, 2017

BAGHDAD - The Journal News

A number of people interested in economic affairs that the adoption of the federal budget for the current year must be accompanied by a change and adoption in the visions and plans for the reform of the country in the near future, and steer the economic government towards the private sector and re-expand government resources to the country from other sectors, industrial and tourism and agricultural sectors such as, and then enter revenues Other non-oil federal budget under decayed in global crude oil prices, leading to the country's emergence from the crucible lean rentier economy.

It is said that the President Fuad Masum, ratified on 10 January this on the 2017 budget law, after it passed the House on the seventh of December last The balance value of more than 79 trillion dinars [$ 68 billion] and the inability of the total 21 billion Dolarouhdd law, the price of a barrel of oil dollars of 42, and the rate of export of a daily rate of three million and 750 thousand barrels, including 250 thousand from the Kurdistan region of fields, and 300 thousand from the Kirkuk oilfields and the main points of the draft federal budget for the year the law of 2017 that the projected 79 trillion dinars revenue and is priced at $ 42 a barrel, and by 3.75 million barrels per day, the exchange rate (1182) to the dollar and total expenditures are divided into (25) investment, and (75 operational)

The share of the region of Kurdistan, has been given (17%), including dues of oil companies in the region in addition to stop the appointments in ministries and departments not associated with the Ministry in all quarters centrally funded and stop the appointments of the degree of general manager and above, except in the case of a customized degree and surcharges (25 ) thousand dinars on all tickets and reduce the number of cars for officials to five cars of the heads of the three powers and the four cars for each Deputy Speaker

And three cars of the deputy ministers and rank shall be fixed and two cars for managers two years and reducing the number of staff by 25% and to stop all external conferences and reduce deployment costs and the days of travel and the closure of all the consulates , commercial, military, cultural and diplomatic missions and their integration with the embassies, in addition to the deduction of 4.8% of all employees and pensioners to support the popular crowd and the displaced.

For his part, the Parliamentary Finance Committee member Jabbar al - Abadi in a statement to (Il Giornale) that Almizanh has approved for the current year and $ 100 trillion dinars and a deficit estimated at 21 trillion dinars, and that government vision is determined that there are up to 13 trillion of the total non - oil revenues from taxes and other charges noting that the economic policy and how to maximize resources to Ataatdmnha budget , considering that the budget to be them access to the income and expenditure of the state, the Finance Committee has put steps to revitalize the work of the private sector and Alastosmara and participation between the two sectors.

He added Abadi: If the high price of a barrel, according to the expectations of OPEC that the price of a barrel up to $ 55, will not benefit from this increase, because we export less than seven points from the specified price, and therefore any increase in prices and the entry of the budget does not cover the budget deficit unless export price of $ 60, noting that the state is not possible in the current year on the spending of the weakness of their capabilities.

He said a member of the Finance Committee in his talk: the region's share amounted to 17% of the total federal budgetary sphere has been reached certain agreements and controls that have been developed for the budget is far from the intergovernmental agreement with the province and therefore must abide by the province until the payment of all dues province and debt, as well as of salary arrears, indicating that there are doubts about the commitment of the region that such agreements are due to changes in the phase of previous positions and the different views between the government center and the region. Among Abadi: that the budget is divided into two parts of which approximately 25% for investment projects which have mostly debts and part of it developed projects or is about to end has been the Finance Committee put forward plans to complete health projects for being very important to the citizen as well as 75% of operational projects

Ebadi said: Maximizing resources must be approved under a tent for Economic Studies and feasibility studies, and legal materials in the budget encourage the private sector to invest, for example Tmen agricultural land and encourage local product and activating the customs on imports and thereby encourage local product.

In turn, an expert in economic affairs Ghazi Kanani in an exclusive interview with the (Journal News): With the adoption of the budget for the current year is heading the state to increase taxes and fees of various kinds, and these affect the citizen in the first place and cause disability and this Ayad solution but many economic damaging noting that the imposition of tax does not achieve the required revenue and therefore does not fill at least part of the deficit, and thus should be enacted in other sectors of industrial sectors such as the agricultural sector as well as the tourism sector, especially religious tourism and the presence of infrastructure of restaurants, hotels, and this does not prevent invest part of World Bank loans in investment projects and not just Dam salaries.

He Kanani: that the operation of laboratories productivity in various sectors is by investing part of the loans that were taken from the International Monetary Fund so as not to fall within the so-called financial Bagr through the payment of salaries and even benefit the citizen, so the continuation of taxes and fees is wrong and since 2004, sounding the alarm necessity Do not rely on a rentier economy, but his decision did not take any of these reformist visions.

He Kanani: that there are doubts about the commitment of the region's oil agreements with the central government due to previous positions in the past years, and the fact that politicians in the province have other regional ambitions, such as independence and this is an act negatively on the part of the province and the shuffle of failing to honor, noting that in the past years there have been polarizations governmental functions and operating within the departments and the absorption of the hands of unemployed and therefore faced significant inflation and bureaucratic grim and disguised unemployment, as well as we faced and vulnerable productivity, we have to unify the pension law between the public and private sectors for being a sector flexible and creative, and experience more and we are going to pass a pension law that eases Go the government and the government are active private sector so active production, and stay away from government jobs and thus encourage citizens to work in the private sector by exempting it and give him privileges in addition to providing electricity to these projects and factories so that we can re-energize those plants, and the introduction of revenue to balance the federal non-oil.

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