Iraqi Customs: 2 trillion dinars in revenues in 2024 and plans to increase them in 2025

Iraqi Customs: 2 trillion dinars in revenues in 2024 and plans to increase them in 2025

2025-01-15 06:12

Iraqi Customs - 2 trillion dinars in revenues in 2024 and plans to increase them in 2025Shafaq News/ On Wednesday, the Director General of the Iraqi Customs Authority, Hassan Al-Akeili, revealed the most important issues discussed during his hosting in the Parliamentary Finance Committee.

Al-Akeili told Shafaq News Agency, “The hosting included emphasis on completing the electronic system applied in the Customs Authority and expanding it to include all customs centers during this year, with the start of using the latest methods in customs expansion according to modern technologies and artificial intelligence.”

Al-Akeili announced that “the Customs Authority achieved nearly 2 trillion dinars and 131 billion dinars during the year 2024, and aspires to achieve more than this number in the year 2025.”

For his part, member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Mustafa Al-Karawi, said, “The committee hosted the directors of the General Authority of Customs and the General Authority of Taxes to discuss non-oil revenues and the possibility of increasing them, in addition to the work of the authority and the plans it has set for the current year.”

During his interview with Shafaq News Agency, Al-Karawi expressed his hope “to establish an advanced electronic system to control non-oil revenues,” indicating that “according to the Ministry of Finance’s report, non-oil revenues amounted to 11 trillion dinars in 2024.”

The head of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Atwan Al-Atwani, said during the hosting session attended by Shafaq News Agency correspondent, “The Finance Committee hosted today the general managers of the General Authority of Customs and the General Authority of Taxes to discuss the work of the authorities and the reality of non-oil revenues and enhancing them in the general budget.”

Al-Atwani added, “The Finance Committee hosted this week the Minister of Finance, Taif Sami, and the Directors General of the Ministry of Finance to enhance the state’s revenues, especially non-oil revenues.”

He stressed that “developed countries have begun to invest in oil in various ways, including investing in refineries and factories to boost oil and non-oil revenues to boost revenues for the state treasury.”

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