Parliamentary Economy: Ports revenue 10 billion dollars, only one billion received
Parliamentary Economy: Ports revenue 10 billion dollars, only one billion received
7/4/2020 10:07:41
{Baghdad: Al Furat News} The Parliamentary Commission on Economy and Investment revealed, on Saturday, the revenue of the outlets, which amounted to $ 10 billion and received only one billion, while it submitted a proposal to control it.
Member of the Economic and Investment Committee MP Mazen Al-Fili said in a statement that he received {Al Furat News} a copy of it: “We stress the government’s taking quick steps and effective measures in collecting the revenues of the outlets, whose realistic amount is at least ten billion dollars at least annually, but it is actually obtained that does not exceed one billion dollars “.
Al-Faili added, “Finding solutions for this economic facility is not limited to providing significant and important revenues that revive the general budget only, but also contributes to the revitalization of the industrial and agricultural sector and the protection of the national product. What is needed to provide additional job opportunities for Iraqi youth and stop the flow of hard currency to import these materials, not to mention the fact that The government’s success in imposing the rule of law on the outlets will restore confidence and motivate the rest of the state’s institutions and departments to adopt firm oversight activities in the face of corruption and corrupt people in various state locations.
Al-Fili presented a set of mechanisms and steps, most notably:
– Adoption of corporate governance (the electronic system for collecting customs duties) in a comprehensive management of all outlets to ensure accurate monitoring and responsible follow-up in the full payment of revenues.
Subject all ports to the management of the federal authority, including the Kurdistan region.
– Appointing an honest and efficient field administration for each outlet and supporting the deployment of elite security forces that protect their sound decisions and block the way for any groups that interfere in the work of the outlets and their revenues.
– Closing unauthorized outlets and crossings that operate outside the control of the state and the law
– Reconsidering granting exemptions from customs, as regulatory reports indicate their exploitation by persons and entities not legally covered, and exemptions are supposed to reduce to the maximum extent possible, and that customs duties are met From everyone in the outlets, and after verification at the center of the validity of their inclusion in the legal exemption, they will be returned to them with the percentage of the custom fees deducted.
– The process of paying imported goods, fees and taxes during the contracting process or if merchants purchase hard currency from the currency auction to complete these commodities to the outlet, and that all their requirements are fulfilled.
– Regulating import licenses and matching them with incoming goods and commodities to prevent tampering with the quality of goods or exchanging them in customs fee transactions, which results in a reduction in the fees imposed on them.
– Connecting all the outlets to a national control center in Baghdad by means of a camera system covering the work and activity of the employees in the outlets to detect any manipulation that occurs in the passage of goods. End
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