Parliamentary Finance responds to the ministry about budget errors .. And a legal expert: What happened is a scandal

Parliamentary Finance responds to the ministry about budget errors .. And a legal expert: What happened is a scandal

04/20/2021 15:58:47

The Parliamentary Finance Committee responded to the statement of the Ministry of Finance, which implicitly bears the parliament regarding the errors in the fiscal budget law for 2021.

The head of the committee, Haitham al-Jubouri, said, “The revenues were not included in the financial fees, the foreign workers’ work fee, the expected sales tax for cigarettes and alcoholic beverages, the amount of crude oil sold to the refineries, and the water revenues after increasing them. ”
He added, “They collect the debt with the operating while they are in the original version of the project and separated them from each other, so we separated them too.”
“As for capitalism, because we have adopted two separate numbers as it came from the ministry that it is the projects financed by the treasury and the second part financed by loans,” Al-Jubouri added, pointing to “the amendment of the tables’ numbers (A, C, D and E). It must be changed from the Ministry of Finance and not from The committee made our judgment to change it based on the amendments to schedule {B} amended according to the text of Paragraph {g} of Clause IV, Article 2 First. ”
For his part, charged a legal expert, the House of Representatives, that there are errors in the fiscal budget law.
Jamal Al-Asadi said in a press statement, “The presence of errors in the tables and texts of the 2021 budget announced in the official gazette, along with what another copy of the budget constitutes a scandal on the date of publication in the Iraqi newspaper Al-Waqi’a, wondering how the law was published with the financial difference in the two versions, which amounts to about 35 trillion dinars?
He stressed, “The need to open an investigation into the matter to find out who sent the budget copy to the Iraqi newspaper Al-Waqa’i’, and to find out if the transmitted copy is the same that carries errors, or there are wrong schedules attached, “pointing out that” the House of Representatives is the one who bears the responsibility. ”
The legal expert stressed the need for the House of Representatives to submit an official apology that explains the error in the budget, adding: “There must be filtering by the House of Representatives before sending the budget law to the Presidency of the Republic.
He continued, that in accordance with the laws, what is published in the Official Gazette is legal, in the sense that the budget law came into force, pointing out that he is supposed to the House of Representatives to publish a correction of this error in the newspaper facts. ”
The Ministry of Finance of the Federal Government has been determined, Earlier today, Tuesday, there were errors in the tables and texts of the 2021 budget announced in the Official Gazette, and the Presidency of the Republic will be approached for the purpose of correction.

The ministry added, in a statement PUKmedia obtained a copy of, that it has started auditing procedures for the 2021 Federal Budget Law after approval by the President of the Republic in accordance with the powers vested in us.

She indicated that she had started with the procedures of auditing the Federal Budget Law No. (23) for the year / 2021 that was published in the Official Gazette No. 4625 on 12 / April / 2021, noting that they were noticed that there were errors in the tables and texts, the matter that will be approached by the Presidency Office for the purpose of Issuing a correction statement in accordance with the authority granted to them under the provisions of Article (of the Law of Publication in the Official Gazette No. (78) of 1977).

And she continued, as all the errors that were mentioned in the draft project sent by the House of Representatives according to her letter No. 1/9/3022 on 6/4/2021 and sent by the Presidency of the Republic to the Official Gazette according to its book No. Y / 1/41/1278 at 12 / 4/2021 and shown below: –

1- In Article 1 / First / A, the federal budget revenues for the fiscal year 2021/2021 (101320141984) are estimated one thousand dinars, as indicated in Table (A), the revenues are according to the numbers attached to this law.

While the table (A) was not amended according to the total revenues referred to above, but rather the total revenues sent by the government project, which amounted to (93159954484) thousand dinars, were retained.

2- Article 2 / First / Expenditures also mentioned an amount (129993009291) thousand dinars for the year / 2021 of them.

1-A- Operating expenses (90559139482) one thousand dinars distributed according to field (1, 2 and 3) of Table (B) expenses according to the ministries.

While the correct total is (98974139482) one thousand dinars and not (90559139482) one thousand dinars, because the additional operational fields are not included, because the last amount is the sum of the column number (1) field added to it (1882000000) one thousand dinars of the new operational amounts.

3- As for the total capital, it was mentioned within the same law in the amount of (29136869809) one thousand dinars (twenty-nine trillion one hundred and thirty-six billion eight hundred and sixty-nine million eight hundred and nine thousand dinars) distributed according to (field / 4 total expenditures) of (table / b) expenditures According to the ministries) and Schedule (E) attached to this law, including the following sums.

While it was mentioned in Schedule (B) prepared by the House of Representatives an amount of (25713294605) thousand yen, and when adding the new additional capital field contained in Table (B) prepared by the House of Representatives, it will be (29136869809) one thousand dinars and that the total amount contained in the table attached to the law sent from Before the government, it is (27757619729) a thousand dinars, which cannot be approved because Parliament has reduced the total capital expenditures, and schedule (E) referred to in paragraph (3) above cannot be approved because the original schedule was not approved by the House of Representatives, but was changed according to Schedule (B).

4- It was also mentioned in the schedule of page (9) regarding Paragraph (Third) Deficit 1 = (A + B) Total revenues (320141984101) one thousand dinars and it does not match the total of Paragraph (A + B). Republic for the purpose of issuing the above correction statement.

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