Figures 2018 budget and highlights

2017/12/1 9:00

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(Baghdad: Al-Furat News) revealed a member of the parliamentary committee Mahasen Hamdoun, the most prominent articles included in the draft federal budget law for 2018, stressing "free of budget items that serve the Iraqi citizen."
Hamdoun told the {Euphrates News} that "the size of the budget of 2018 is104 trillion dinars, and the default deficit of 14 trillion dinars (13.4%)."
She added that "the value of budget revenues is 90 trillion dinars and 77 trillion of which are imports of the sale of oil (ie 85.5%) and 13 trillion of other sectors," noting that "the budget is free of appointments and grades as well as devoid of any allocations for the reconstruction of liberated areas" , Likely "boycott the coalition of Iraqi forces to the budget because it did not include allocations for liberated areas."
"The 2018 budget is also devoid of any support for the agricultural, industrial and commercial sectors, in addition to the existence of many duplicate items that existed previously and have not been implemented."
She pointed out that "the budget included the employee's leave for five years, but added a new item that if the employee took leave more than 5 years are registered without a salary and service is also entitled to work in private enterprises."
She added that "the House of Representatives decided to hold an extraordinary session Saturday to read the law first reading, and then it is the responsibility of the Finance Committee to study and observe what is in it."

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