Member of Parliamentary Finance: We have not received or reviewed the budget yet


  • Time: 2023/03/21 15:14:12
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Member of Parliamentary Finance: We have not received or reviewed the budget yet

  

{Economic: Euphrates News} A member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee announced that the draft financial budget law for the years 2023, 2024 and 2025 has not reached the committee so far.

“So far, the Finance Committee has not officially received the budget law, and it has not begun to study or review it,” committee member Jamal Koger told {Euphrates News}.

“The budget has reached the Presidency of Parliament, but it has not reached the committee, it is not known how long it will take to approve it,” he added.

The House of Representatives announced that it had received the draft budget law last Thursday.

It is noteworthy that the Council of Ministers approved in its session on March 13 the three budgets and referred them to Parliament for approval.

Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani said, after the council meeting in a press conference, that: “The total budget is more than 197 trillion dinars, the operational budget is more than 150 trillion dinars and investment is more than 47 trillion, and the budget deficit is 63 trillion dinars.”

He pointed out that “the total revenues amount to more than 134 trillion dinars, and oil revenues of them amount to more than 117 trillion based on the price of oil at $ 70, and non-oil revenues amount to more than 17 trillion dinars.”

Raghad Daham

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