Parliamentary planning launches 13 points of clarification to reduce spending in the budget
Parliamentary planning launches 13 points of clarification to reduce spending in the budget
01/09/2021 18:46:17
{Baghdad: Al Furat News} The Chairman of the Committee to Monitor the Implementation of the Governmental Program and Parliamentary Strategic Planning, Hazem Majeed Al-Khalidi, released 13 illustrative points to reduce spending in the federal budget for 2021.
Al-Khalidi said in a statement that Al-Furat News received a copy of, “We renew our demands to reduce the exaggerated estimates of the 2021 budget spending, especially since the closest year to 2020 did not exceed the actual total spending of more than (72) trillion dinars, and we explain the justifications for our demand with the facts below:
1 – In the Deficit Financing Law, the government submitted a request for an amount of (41) trillion dinars for a period of four months only, but the real need did not exceed (12) trillion dinars for the same period.
2- The government submitted the draft budget for 2020 to the House of Representatives in the ninth month of the same year and requested an amount of (148) trillion dinars, although the Ministry of Finance stated in an official letter that the total actual spending for the eight months of 2020 was (46) trillion dinars If eight months require spending (46) trillion dinars only, then this means that the remaining amount requested by the government, amounting to 102 trillion, is intended to be spent in only four months, so how can he ask to spend money in a third of a year equivalent to more than twice the amount spent in Two-thirds of the same year (2020).
3- Current expenditures for the year 2020 in the eight months up to 9/1/2020 amounted to (44.8) trillion – forty-four trillion and eight hundred billion dinars), while the 2021 budget proposes current expenditures at the amount of (120) trillion dinars – one hundred and twenty trillion dinars).
4- The actual expenditures of goods and services during the year (2020) (1.93) trillion dinars (one trillion nine hundred billion dinars), while the 2021 budget proposes (19.5) trillion dinars – nineteen trillion dinars and five hundred billion dinars).
5- Asset maintenance expenditures during the eight months of 2020 amounted to (89) billion dinars (eighty-nine billion dinars), while the 2021 budget proposes (578) billion dinars – five hundred seventy-eight billion dinars).
6- Actual expenditures for special programs in the eight months of 2020 amounted to (51) billion dinars (fifty-one billion dinars), while the 2021 budget proposes an amount of (1.1) trillion dinars – one trillion and one hundred billion dinars).
7- Actual capital expenditures for the eight months of the year 2020 amounted to (52) billion dinars (fifty-two billion dinars), while the 2021 budget proposes an amount (638 billion dinars –
Six hundred thirty-eight billion dinars).
– The actual expenditures for the title (grants, subsidies, interest and other expenses) for the eight months of the year 2020 amounted to (7.3) trillion (seven trillion and three hundred billion dinars). The schedule of the Deficit Financing Law for the remaining four months of the year 2020 does not include adding amounts to this address, while it suggests 2021 budget for the same address amount (18.5 trillion dinars – eighteen trillion five hundred billion dinars).
9- The actual spending of investment expenditures for the year 2020 (3.1) trillion dinars – three trillion and one hundred billion dinars), while the budget for 2021 is proposed (27 trillion dinars – twenty-seven trillion dinars).
10- The budget articles refer to the calculation of the Kurdistan region’s dues for previous years from the total actual spending that the financial control accounts show within the budget laws allocations for the years (2014-2.19) despite the regional government’s failure to deliver any oil or non-oil revenues to the public treasury. .
11- The budget obliges the region to deliver (250) thousand barrels of crude oil per day at the price of marketing the exported oil from
SOMO, meaning that this text permits the region to sell oil directly and is obligated to deliver its value. This is a clear constitutional violation and the other violation is that the same article allows the region to dispose of what has exceeded Its production even if it reaches (500) thousand barrels, as the same article stipulates (the quantities exceeding that are used to cover domestic consumption in the region and the costs of production, operation and transportation) and this is an implicit acknowledgment of the legality of the partnership contracts that the region concluded with foreign companies without the approval of the federal authority !!
12- The budget obliges the Ministry of Finance to bear the region’s loans and financial obligations during the years (2014-2019) in the form of annual payments, and among these loans are the dues of foreign companies operating in the region,
contrary to the constitution.
13- We demand the necessity of canceling the provisions of the budget for the deduction of salaries of employees and imposing tax on them while retaining the deduction of the salaries of the three presidencies, ministers, deputies, and higher and special ranks.
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