Parliamentary Finance Committee: Baghdad has requested a delegation from Erbil to discuss the 2027 budget.
Parliamentary Finance Committee: Baghdad has requested a delegation from Erbil to discuss the 2027 budget.
2026-08-23
Shafaq News – Baghdad
On Sunday, Ikhlas al-Dulaimi, a member of the parliamentary finance committee, announced that the federal Ministry of Finance had sent an official request to the Kurdistan Regional Government to send a delegation to Baghdad to discuss the region’s share in the 2027 general budget law.
Al-Dulaimi, a member of parliament from the Kurdistan Democratic Party bloc, told Shafaq News Agency that “the region’s share in the budget law has become 14% according to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Planning, and we seek to have a real study of the region’s situation in the budget law.”
She added that “throughout the previous years, the Kurdistan Region did not receive investment budgets or operational budgets, but only salaries, and there were many problems with that.”
She continued, “The Kurdistan Region is now seeking to receive its full rights, just like the other provinces,” stressing that “the region has handed over all oil and non-oil revenues to the federal government.”
Earlier today, the Kurdistan Retirees Union called on the regional and federal governments to include retirees’ files in the negotiations to prepare the new federal budget, address the delayed salaries, and unify the retirement law.
On July 26, Iraqi parliament member Bryar Rashid, from Sulaymaniyah Governorate, told Shafaq News Agency that he had collected the signatures of more than 50 MPs to demand that contract employees in the Kurdistan Region be made permanent employees, within the framework of the federal budget law for the coming year.
The Department of Media and Information of the Kurdistan Regional Government stated on February 9, 2026, that the sovereign deduction mechanisms adopted in the federal budget, along with the adoption of the principle of “actual spending”, have led to a reduction in the region’s share of the general budget over the course of two decades.
According to a report issued by the department, which was received by Shafaq News Agency at the time, the Kurdistan Region is a partner in bearing what is known as the “sovereign costs” of the federal state at a rate of 12.67%, which are costs estimated at about 8.7 trillion dinars annually, but the region does not benefit from sovereign expenditures at the same level at which this percentage is deducted from its share.
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