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Baghdad: Iraq's cultural policy group has called for the rejection of new customs taxes imposed on the book, in line with preparations underway for a new session of the Baghdad International Book Fair, from February 7 to 18, 2019.
"The new taxes restrict the entry of books and hinder the marketing of Iraqi cultural products to and from the country, especially since most of the Iraqi issues are printed abroad," the group said in a statement.
He added that "this comes in the absence of government initiatives to promote creative work and provide a horizon for development, such as a special fund to support the culture and the arts, or grants annually to producers writers and artists, while surprised by the insistence of the House of Representatives to increase the proportion of its budget for 2019, To popular discontent with the performance of the political class and to reject its continuing approach to the sharing of positions and quotas, which has failed the public administration in the country since April 2003. "
The group called on the new Minister of Culture, Abdul Amir Al-Hamdani, to "promote the ministry's role and contribute to the creation of a new cultural climate, and to be the first initiative on the book, and to invite the General Authority of Customs to reconsider the tax imposed; to maximize the country's resources to eliminate corruption, Publications and publications ".
Intellectuals, publishers and libraries have expressed their displeasure at continuing to impose a 15 percent tax on importing books.
They sent a public message to the officials of the ministries of culture and commerce, the tax authority and the public opinion of intellectuals in which they appealed in the name of culture and knowledge to support the Iraqi writers by abolishing the imposition of high-cost taxes on the entry of books into Iraq, And wrote children} without returning to the provisions of Iraqi law and international laws to support the book and exempt him from any duties or tariffs.
The tax rate on books did not exceed 1 percent, but it was very different after the arrival of dozens of containers across the sea in October last librarians and publishing houses from the Arab and private bodies of Lebanon, Syria and Egypt, all were held on the grounds that the new import tax of 15 percent, The book carries an additional cost that overshadows the reader's receiver, and carries it more than what he expected. This makes the book a primary difficulty, if it is implemented as it is.
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Cultural discontent with continued importation of books into Iraq
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[rtl]Baghdad: Iraq's cultural policy group has called for the rejection of new customs taxes imposed on the book, in line with preparations underway for a new session of the Baghdad International Book Fair, from February 7 to 18, 2019.
"The new taxes restrict the entry of books and hinder the marketing of Iraqi cultural products to and from the country, especially since most of the Iraqi issues are printed abroad," the group said in a statement.
He added that "this comes in the absence of government initiatives to promote creative work and provide a horizon for development, such as a special fund to support the culture and the arts, or grants annually to producers writers and artists, while surprised by the insistence of the House of Representatives to increase the proportion of its budget for 2019, To popular discontent with the performance of the political class and to reject its continuing approach to the sharing of positions and quotas, which has failed the public administration in the country since April 2003. "
The group called on the new Minister of Culture, Abdul Amir Al-Hamdani, to "promote the ministry's role and contribute to the creation of a new cultural climate, and to be the first initiative on the book, and to invite the General Authority of Customs to reconsider the tax imposed; to maximize the country's resources to eliminate corruption, Publications and publications ".
Intellectuals, publishers and libraries have expressed their displeasure at continuing to impose a 15 percent tax on importing books.
They sent a public message to the officials of the ministries of culture and commerce, the tax authority and the public opinion of intellectuals in which they appealed in the name of culture and knowledge to support the Iraqi writers by abolishing the imposition of high-cost taxes on the entry of books into Iraq, And wrote children} without returning to the provisions of Iraqi law and international laws to support the book and exempt him from any duties or tariffs.
The tax rate on books did not exceed 1 percent, but it was very different after the arrival of dozens of containers across the sea in October last librarians and publishing houses from the Arab and private bodies of Lebanon, Syria and Egypt, all were held on the grounds that the new import tax of 15 percent, The book carries an additional cost that overshadows the reader's receiver, and carries it more than what he expected. This makes the book a primary difficulty, if it is implemented as it is.
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