Parliamentary warns of passing the budget
Parliamentary warns of passing the budget
01/13/2021 13:04
[Baghdad-Where]
MP Alia Nassif warned, on Wednesday, against passing the financial budget in its current form that strikes the citizen in his livelihood, in addition to the constitutional and legal violations it contains, according to her saying.
Nassif said in a statement that Article 20, Paragraph IV of the budget related to deductions from the salaries of retired civilians and soldiers is a legal and constitutional violation, and the salaries of this segment are a trust that is recorded as an acquired right in the retirement fund, and therefore this acquired right may not be deducted, and this article violates Article 28 Paragraph Two of the Constitution, meaning that the Budget Law is a temporary annual law, so amendments cannot be made to the salaries of retirees and any other salaries, and the original laws on which these salaries are based cannot be overridden by relying on the budget law.
She indicated that Article 28 of the budget stipulates that the governor or minister is empowered to impose taxes on services for which the citizen will pay, as if this budget was prepared to burden the citizen only, and on the other hand the budget includes giving ministers authority to sell the assets of the Iraqi state, and this is a dangerous precedent, being for the first time A state sells its assets, so instead of investing assets such as agricultural lands, they are sold, as if the state is now moving in two directions, the direction of rentier and the direction of selling the state’s assets.
Nassif added that the budget from beginning to end includes loans identified by specific companies, although the report of the 62nd Committee and the Fiscal Deficit Law confirm that it is not permissible to mention company names in the budget. The budget specifies accounts and not company names, while the 2021 budget is full of company names as if competition is prevented. Honest companies among the companies and the absence of transparency that could save money for the Iraqi state.
She added that when all countries of the world raise the price of the dollar and impose a tax, they must use a strategy to protect the citizen, as the state must precede the Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance in developing a strategy to protect the citizen, whether he is an employee or a gainer, not leaving him without protection for his living situation.
Nassif demanded the addition of the text of the deficit law that was voted on in the House of Representatives regarding the relationship between the region and the center, to be approved in the budget, as the regional government does not have the right to enter into an agreement regarding the region’s oil, and in short, they must hand over the entire oil product and non-oil revenues according to what came in The text of the law on financing the fiscal deficit, just as it cannot give legitimacy to Kirkuk oil to be part of the agreement.
Nassif added that the debts of the region’s oil extraction costs are many times higher than what was allocated to the ration card for the citizen, which amounts to fifteen dollars and is equal to only 22 thousand dinars. Meaningless service, which costs two trillion and 881 billion dinars, commodity supplies and maintenance of assets and special programs, totaling more than 21 trillion dinars, and this paragraph alone is equivalent to the budget of a country, while this budget is supposed to be austere and reformist
alliraqnews.com
