The Minister of Labor confirms: This week is the date to start implementing the instructions of the financial budget
The Minister of Labor confirms: This week is the date to start implementing the instructions of the financial budget
2023-08-06 05:37
Shafaq News/ The Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Ahmed Al-Asadi announced, on Sunday, that the current week will witness the ministries receiving instructions for implementing the federal budget for the year 2023.
Al-Asadi told Shafaq News agency reporter, on the sidelines of a press conference to announce the “Iraq Charitable Lotto” project, “The delay in issuing instructions for implementing the general budget law was caused by sending the instructions to the State Council, and in turn, the Council completed its audit last week and sent it to the Ministry of Finance.”
He added, “The Ministry of Finance will, during this week, send budget instructions to ministries and state departments.”
Last Tuesday, the first of this month, the State Council announced in a brief statement received by Shafaq News agency; The process of auditing the instructions for implementing the Budget Law for the years 2023-2024-2025 No. 13 of 2023 took place in the presence of the Minister of Finance, the Ministry of Planning, and the relevant authorities, for the purpose of facilitating the procedures for implementing the aforementioned law.
On Monday (June 12), the Iraqi parliament voted on the federal budget law for the years 2023-2024-2025, after discussions that lasted for five days.
The value of the current year budget is 197 trillion and 828 billion Iraqi dinars (about 152.2 billion dollars), with a total deficit of 63 trillion dinars (48.3 billion dollars), while the items of the 2023 and 2024 budgets have not been published.
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