Basra government refuses to implement the new tariff law and considers it “unjust”
Basra government refuses to implement the new tariff law and considers it “unjust”
AUGUST 6, 2015
BAGHDAD (AFP) – The local government of Basra in southern Iraq refused to apply the new tariff law which the central government raised the rate from five to twenty percent after the financial crisis in the country, and considered it “unjust”.
He said the Basra Governorate Council member Morteza lipodeca Thursday to AFP: “We decided yesterday not to deal with the new tariff law until the implementation of all the country’s ports, including the ports of the Kurdistan region, because it is unjust.”
Law went into effect on the first of this month as part of the austerity measures decided by the Iraqi government, which suffers from a severe financial crisis, the impact of falling oil prices.
Traders and importers and protested the new rates and jammed trucks coming from Kuwait when the perpetrators of Safwan and Shalamjah pulling down the port is very large revenues.
He is responsible for lipodeca ports “supposed to Tstnty food and construction (…) is aggrieved citizen first.”
“The decision will make the service departments Khovatha prepared in advance, reluctant projects.”
“The demonstrations scouring Iraq from north to south, we need to wait in the application of this new law.”
And the distribution of provincial councils and members of Congress from the province of Basra Thursday to ports for the introduction of goods and trucks according to the previous law, according to lipodeca.
Businessmen and stressed that the decision may cause the escape of importers from the south and north of the country move to outlets that do not apply the new law.
He said Iraqi businessman Sabih al-Hashemi “in principle we have no objection but must be implemented in the rest of the ports, but not exclusively on the southern ports.”
“If implemented in Basra, it means it has become a repulsive environment for business.”
He stressed that “some importers began to go to the Kurdistan region of outlets because of tariffs much Accept what exists in Basra now.”
Hashemi and hinted that the first affected by the tariff is the consumer and the citizen is not the importer. “When we pay tariff certainly will be imposed on the citizen, not the merchant.”
“The prices started to rise in the markets at all levels, at the time we created an uproar in the application of the tariff,” warning that “due care is assumed minute applicable to all ports so that there will be justice.”
And he demanded the involvement of al-Hashemi and asked the private sector tariff Is this appropriate? The government and financial, to reconsider the formation of a committee supposed to be where the private sector is a key partner, and taking the opinion of the sector, because it is concerned, tariff “.
The application of the new tariff to lower revenues, which coincided with demonstrations in Basra and other areas in Iraq in protest at the Tri-quality water and electricity.
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