Expectations approve the budget before the end of the year
Expectations approve the budget before the end of the year
30/10/2016 0:00
Saleh «morning»: reduce the fiscal deficit by half
BAGHDAD / Sabah
predicted the financial advisor to the prime minister appearance of Mohammed Saleh approve the budget year 2017 before the end of this year.
Saleh said in a statement »Sabah»: The «2017 budget will amount to more than 100 trillion dinars », adding that« the budget will be approved before the end of the year , after parliament completed its first reading. » Saleh added that « the new budget, not much different in the paragraphs from the current year ‘s budget, with a few differences, but the new thing which is that it represents a transition from a war economy to a peace».
And Saleh , said that « the budget next year will enter another stage is stage construction and reconstruction and convert a lot of military expenditures to the construction costs and progress, and so it ends to serve a new stage in the life of Iraq ».
the Prime Minister Haider al – Abadi said at a news conference on Tuesday, received the board of the Federal budget for 2017 , the House of Representatives, as pointed out that The government reconsidered some of the paragraphs of the budget that has been reduced spending and reduce the deficit significantly by 50 percent.
as Salih stressed that «Iraq also discussed with the international Monetary Fund for the budget year 2017 and installed in terms of expenditure and income and places of spending Exchange», indicating that « the discussions included some addressed simple adjustments upon the agreement, especially with regard to reducing the deficit to 50 percent ».
he pointed out that« the first draft in which the deficit was 34 trillion dinars, while the deficit after the amendment amounted to half of this amount ».
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