Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar: The Tax Authority continued to “betrayal of trust” despite the precautionary mea

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[size=52]Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar: The Tax Authority continued to “betrayal of trust” despite the precautionary measures of the Ministry of Finance[/size]

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[size=45]The Minister of Oil, Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar, who took over the Ministry of Finance as an agency, confirmed that the General Tax Authority continued to “betray the trust” despite the precautionary measures taken by the former Finance Minister, Ali Allawi, considering that the current government is the only one that “diagnosed fraud and dishonesty mechanisms.” .[/size]
[size=45]Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar, said in a press conference, Tuesday (October 18, 2022), that “since 17 important days, everyone has been talking about the loss of tax and customs revenues and their failure to reach the state treasury, and unfortunately, it has become a culture of society,” noting that “there are no other sources of funding.” One of the most important reasons for the distortion of the Iraqi economy.”[/size]
[size=45]He added that during the past 17 years, successive governments did not issue "any financial or technical report that proves or denies that these funds go to the public treasury, and no report has dealt with exact numbers" this situation.[/size]
[size=45]The Minister of Oil considered that the only report that dealt with this matter “was the one that was issued at the time of this government when it identified the mechanisms of fraud and breach of trust in extorting these sums.”[/size]
[size=45]He noted that "former Finance Minister Ali Allawi started the procedures with a letter to the General Tax Authority in which he directed to stop the exchange from the account," adding that "despite the precautionary measures he took, the breach of trust was continuing."[/size]
[size=45]Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar pointed out that, at the beginning of his work at the Ministry of Finance, he felt “the lack of transparency, confusion and loss of proper management, and during the first days he showed us two documents, the first talking about a paper balance in the calculator department and the second about the real balance in the tax trust account in Rafidain Bank, and the difference between them.” It was a huge sum,” which prompted him to scrutinize the matter and form a high-level investigative committee.[/size]
[size=45]And he indicated that "the recommendations of the committee included the punishment of administrative staff, and the exemption of the director general of the authority, the first assistant, and a number of advanced cadres within the authority, which we believe are part of the secretariat, and this matter is ultimately appreciated by the competent courts."[/size]
[size=45]The Minister of Oil, who took over the Ministry of Finance as acting, referred to “assigning one of the advanced cadres in the General Tax Authority to manage the authority temporarily until the appointment of a general manager in authenticity,” noting that the person charged with managing the authority submitted “a detailed report with documents, statements, numbers of instruments and practices in a very accurate way, proving That the difference between the paper balance and the real one was embezzled from people who have no right to it.”[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out that the role of the Ministry of Finance ended by sending the report, which consists of 400 pages with its priorities, to the competent authorities under the guidance of the Prime Minister.[/size]
[size=45]For her part, Acting Finance Minister Hiam Neamat confirmed that the ministry is "fully prepared to reveal any requirements in order to reveal the facts."[/size]
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