“The file is closed.” One party has the details of the real deficit for the 2024 budget, and “no one knows.”
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An official source in the Prime Minister’s Office revealed today, Wednesday (February 21, 2024), that government agencies do not know the amount of the real and expected deficit in the financial budget for the current year 2024.
The source, who requested to remain anonymous in an interview with “Baghdad Today,” said, “The responsible government agencies in the Prime Minister’s Office and even the Board of Advisors do not have any information regarding the amount of the real and expected deficit in the 2024 budget.”
He added, "This matter is completely closed until the moment exclusively with the Ministry of Finance, and there is no access to it by any other governmental or even parliamentary body, and the budget law schedules are still under study and construction at the Budget Department in the Ministry of Finance, and no one knows what they include." Of numbers and details.
Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani announced yesterday, Tuesday (February 20, 2024), that the 2024 budget schedules will be sent to the House of Representatives to vote on.
On Tuesday (February 20, 2024), the Parliamentary Finance Committee commented on the date for approving the 2024 budget law, while sending a message to the government.
Committee member Jamal Cougar told “Baghdad Today,” “So far we do not know when the government will send the schedules of the 2024 budget law and what these schedules will include in terms of financial allocations for projects and other expenditures, and we do not know what the deficit is within this budget.”
Cougar stated, "The government is required to expedite sending the details of the 2024 budget to the House of Representatives for the purpose of reviewing and studying it. There is also the possibility of making amendments to it, as this is within the powers granted to Parliament."
On February 13, 2024, Member of Parliament Ahmed Taha Al-Rubaie revealed new details related to the amendments expected to occur in the financial budget for the current year, while noting that they include job grades and confirmation of contractors.
Al-Rubaie told "Baghdad Today", "The ministries have begun preparing the tables that they want to be included in the 2024 budget for the purpose of continuing to include them on the agenda for passage," indicating that "the budget needs an amendment appendix through texts and tables."
Al-Rubaie explained that “the deletion of job grades may be stopped in order to create appointments according to the grades of deletion and creation, in addition to continuing to confirm those who have completed two years of work as a contract, following the example of those who were previously confirmed.”
On (February 1, 2024), the Parliamentary Finance Committee revealed the latest developments in the financial budget for the year 2024, while indicating that it would rise to 206 trillion dinars instead of 199 trillion dinars.
Committee member Mustafa Al-Karaawi told the official agency, “Article 77/Second of the Tripartite Federal Budget Law for the years 2023, 2024, and 2025 stipulates that the House of Representatives will be provided with updated tables for the 2024 budget in order to discuss the file of increase or decrease in the file of financial allocations according to expected revenues and according to the price of oil.” Installer".
He added, "The schedules are still being prepared in the Council of Ministers in preparation for approval, and the House of Representatives will begin discussing the budget after it arrives from the government. We believe that transmission must be accelerated because the delay may restrict the disbursement of operational and investment budgets in the coming days," noting, "Disbursement is now limited to salaries." employees and their benefits directly.”
Al-Karaawi stressed that “the issue of updating the tables depends on the oil market and the quantities exported, on the basis of which the expected revenues will be calculated, and it is based on the size of expenditures and the percentage of the deficit,” pointing out that “there is a point of view that occurred in the 2023 budget according to the quantities that were spent and how to deal with it.” The deficit and revenues achieved, and it is assumed that there will be a growth in expenditures given that there is a growth in the operating budget, and there are contracts concluded in 2023 that have not been disbursed yet and must be added in the next budget.”
Regarding the appointments, he explained that they “may include contracts, firsts, holders of advanced degrees, and governorate contracts for the 150,000 degrees that have not been implemented yet and which were transferred to the 2024 budget.”
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