Parliamentary Finance Committee: The 2025 budget amounts to 216 trillion dinars, and the government will not submit it soon.
Parliamentary Finance Committee: The 2025 budget amounts to 216 trillion dinars, and the government will not submit it soon.
2025-03-12 04:54
Shafaq News/ On Wednesday, the Deputy Chairperson of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Ikhlas al-Dulaimi, ruled out the government’s submission of budget schedules within the next two months, while confirming that the value of the 2025 budget amounts to 216 trillion Iraqi dinars .
Al-Dulaimi told Shafaq News Agency, “The Ministry of Finance has not yet sent the 2025 budget tables to the Council of Ministers, even though they were supposed to be sent in October 2024, according to the Financial Management Law, for approval before the start of the new year.”
She added, “The total budget amount is 216 trillion dinars, while actual spending is estimated at about 160 trillion dinars.”
Al-Dulaimi ruled out “sending the tables to the House of Representatives within the next two months,” noting that “the Ministry of Finance has not yet completed their preparation, which could lead to the postponement of budget approval until after the elections.”
Last February, the Iraqi Parliament voted on the draft law amending the first law of the Federal General Budget Law of the Republic of Iraq for the fiscal years (2023 – 2024 – 2025) No. (13) of 2023 .
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