Basra is planning to impose taxes on oil giants after the amendment of the law and 7 provinces and m

Basra is planning to impose taxes on oil giants after the amendment of the law and 7 provinces and ministries mobility tasks for governments pain

06.26.2013 | (Voice of Iraq) - Add a comment -

 Baghdad / Mohammad Sabah
expressed deputies and officials in Basra, expressed confidence that the efforts of the parliamentary blocs resulted in one of the most important laws "in the history of the country" with the adoption of about 80 amendments in the legislation primarily regulates the powers of local governments and their relationship with Baghdad, saying that their wallets will be one of the most prominent beneficiaries and talked about the possibility of imposing taxes on cartels oil giant, while revealing that the draft approved and prone to challenge the team Prime Minister, was designed in collaboration with experts Canadians while blocked the door of understanding between the legislative and executive branches.
The House voted in its meeting held last Sunday on the Second Amendment the Law of the governorates not organized province No. 21 for the year 2008. The deputies in the specialized committees said the extent of yesterday, the first, if the parliamentary vote to amend the law of the provinces, which was despite the opposition bloc, Prime Minister, the mechanism will allow local governments to enjoy its mandate approved in the Constitution according to the principle of decentralization, after it has been for years do not use only 20 percent of those powers.
In connection with the "long" the Attorney for the province of Basra, Mansur al-Tamimi, a deputy chairman of the Committee of the Regions in the parliament, that they will receive the province of Basra after this law from the funds of petrodollars will be more than $ 10 million a day, after raising the proportion of petrodollars from the U.S. one to five, is added to repeat the oil reaches refineries in Basra to about 400 thousand barrels per day, as well as gas, half revenues border crossing points, in addition to more than a billion dollars from the federal budget. "
and contributed to the claims of many blocks backed momentum demonstrations in cities in western Iraq , and the objections of the political class in the provinces heavyweight population in the south, in the payment of this legislative amendment which allows for the first time in the history of contemporary Iraq, local governments authority to choose officials of the judiciary and security leaders. also allows determining the status of the army inside and outside the cities, and the necessary capital, in consultation with the Governor in moving the pieces of the federal government, as well as a significant increase by about five times, in the amounts of petrodollars granted to the provinces producer.
draws Mansour al-Tamimi to Basra should be prepared to "the biggest financial budget in its contemporary history can solve accumulated problems," pointing out that "7 Federal ministries, including municipalities, Construction and Housing and Labour, will hand over its powers to the provinces to be completed this transition within two years from the date of entry into force of this law. "
From his part, said a member of the Basra provincial council, Ahmed Al-Sulaiti said in an interview with the "long" to "amend the law governorates not organized province is the triumph of the will of the Constitution and the people and to achieve the principle of administrative decentralization ", noting that more than" 80 amendments were made ​​to the law, who arrived in the best formulation of the University as stated in the Constitution. "
said Sulaiti, saying that "this formulation were not on the table by the cabinet or parliament It was made ​​experts Canadians hired by the legislative authority after what he faced a draft government and parliament sharp differences, as well as discussion with the Conservatives and specialists. "
and that "these amendments restored quorum to put it right by giving the right to legislate and the issuance of the domestic laws of the provincial councils as stipulated by Article 115 of the Constitution, as well as gave the provincial control of all government departments that do not enter the work in the terms of reference of the federal authorities stipulated in the Constitution, and this is a victory for the constitutional article which includes to be the powers of the federal authorities in the 9 resources not non Otherwise the jurisdiction of the provincial councils. "
He continued that "the powers shared According to Article 112 of the Constitution will be up in the oil wealth and draw a strategic policies to develop oil fields and gas." and added that "this will be through the issuance of legislation and laws that do not conflict with federal laws and where priority to the provinces. "
reveals Sulaiti said the law would encourage Basra on a new understanding of the Constitution of the taxes imposed laws federal and local fees and give the right of the province to meet the rent of companies that exploit land conservation, including oil companies, which currently operates more than 80% of the territory of Basra, as well as from imposing taxes on companies that affect the environment. "
and works in Basra, about 7 cartels oil giant to develop the most important fields of the country, and show the centers of power are comfortable with the presence of companies but they do not hide the ambition to participate in the formulation of understandings with them to achieve greater benefit of the province.
revealed Sulaiti that a coalition of state law "gunning currently making of the challenge this law in federal court after its publication in the Official Gazette amelioration that this law did not come from the government but from the parliament."
and lost Maliki's coalition several rounds in Parliament when passed his opponents pack legislation contrary to his understanding of the state administration, which vows ago months by resorting to the Federal Court, which seems to no longer resist the laws that easily stands behind a parliamentary majority, criticizing the policies of the government team. term



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