Parliamentary Finance reveals the number of double salaries and is likely to pay two salaries next month
Parliamentary Finance reveals the number of double salaries and is likely to pay two salaries next month
10/27/2020 09:16:32
{Baghdad: Al Furat News} The reporter of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Ahmed Al-Saffar, revealed that there are 150,000 employees with double salaries, indicating that addressing this issue will save more than one trillion dinars per month.
Al-Saffar said in a press statement that “after examining the draft fiscal deficit law in the appendix of current expenditures, which includes 38 items, we found that some items could be postponed to the 2021 budget to reduce the loan amount that exceeds 41 trillion dinars,” stressing that “it is impossible to approve it by the Council Representatives or the Parliamentary Finance Committee. ”
Al-Saffar added that “seven items out of the 38 must be spent during the next four months, including (employee salaries, pension salaries, indebtedness and debt benefits, the ration card, medicine and the social protection network,” indicating that they are “essential items that the loan should cover, and the rest of The current expenditures items are transferred to the 2021 budget, to solve the salary problem as soon as possible by approving the fiscal deficit bill.
And he went on to say that “in the case of providing salaries, the government is obligated to pay the debts arising from the delay in salaries of employees, and in my estimation, if the government is serious, it will decide in the first week of November the distribution of the salaries of the month of October, and after a week they start distributing the salaries of the month (11), that is Pay the salaries in succession because the government has no argument in case the specified loan amount for the next four months is approved.
In order to reduce the waste in spending, the Parliamentary Finance Rapporteur warned that “more than one minister has confirmed through the media the existence of double-salary employees, between two to nine salaries, as according to estimates, there are 150,000 double-salary employees.”
And that “dealing with this issue will save more than a trillion Iraqi dinars per month, and if the emphasis is placed on other taxes, whether at border points and the revenues of local departments, such as public traffic, state real estate and the General Tax Authority, the government will have one trillion dinars per month.”
Regarding the window for selling the currency, Al-Saffar explained that “approximately a trillion dinars do not enter the state treasury because of the investments and unreal receipts provided by some merchants who buy dollars from private banks through the currency window, and therefore they are not given to real importers, and they are not taxed, and they do not express Real trade as goods entering Iraq, so the dollar must be transferred to the Ministry of Finance to collect real state taxes, amounting to a trillion Iraqi dinars.
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