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D. Kamal Al-Basri *: an open letter to the Minister of Finance Hishaar Zebari message
- PUBLISHED ON 23.02.2015
HE the Minister of Finance Mr. Hoshyar Zebari, Esquire Thread / transparency of the federal budget Nhdakm my best greetings ... We are writing to you hoping that your covenant is achieved on a single mission of the vocabulary of the application of good governance ...
HE the Minister of Finance Mr. Hoshyar Zebari, Esquire
Thread / transparency of the federal budget
Nhdakm my best greetings ...
We are writing to you hoping that your covenant achieved on a single mission of the vocabulary of good governance of public money application. Budget Transparency Foundation (www I have posted. Internationalbudget.org) on 01/22/2013 for evaluation of the transparency of budgets in the countries of the world, and it was Iraq sequence for other countries is low (in the last peace), a condition that does not fit with Iraq as a democratic reputation (of functions of public access to the government's policy to dispose of public money) in the previous political era Taatattabr budget, especially the political leadership ordered the details alone.
The weakness of budget transparency indicators in Iraq is not due to the existence of legal difficulties or technical capabilities within the Ministry of Finance, but not to realize the importance and priority. You have already Iraqi Institute for Economic Reform said the 2008 is definitely on the necessity of adopting the Ministry of Finance the principle of transparency in the preparation and implementation of the federal budget, and in 2010 obtained the support of the Minister of Finance to appeal, but the ministry Ajhzat defaulted on the implementation of it!
What is required to play the Finance Ministry to publish all the budget and are accessible to citizens and all stakeholders and the issuance of the citizen that demonstrates the federal budget is simplified for all citizens budget booklet documents (in the past year, the volunteers Institute to issue "balancing citizen" was donated to the ministry did not find our initiative any echo of by the Ministry of Finance).
That the absence of budget transparency is incompatible with the spirit of the Constitution (which states that public money belongs to the citizens), and with the international commitments of Iraq transparency information. The lack of transparency contributed to the inefficient use of public money, and then widening the gap between the home and the political elite. That needs to be done is simply to disseminate information issued by the Ministry of Finance, which annually, according to the law of financial management and the website of the Ministry.
Currently at universities and research centers can not take advantage of the budget to contribute to the preparation of the economic reform studies, for example, the face of the institute more than one application to the Ministry of Finance to clarify the amount of government support for energy, especially oil derivatives ... and as usual neglect such requests !!
The continued decline in the transparency of the federal budget index, along with high corruption index, and the failure of economic business issued by international institutions that indicators (Doing Business Survey) Iraq will be deprived of investment companies sober opportunities in the Iraqi economy, which is contributing to the block the transfer of technology and advanced management practices to develop the sector the public and private end worst. In addition to the foregoing that transparency is Ahadday vocabulary of good management and governance necessary to support the rule of law and the fight against Alvesadh and raise the efficiency of overall performance, and otherwise difficult to achieve progress in the implementation of good governance and raise the global credit-Iraqi indicators. In order to Ataatkrr experience of past years, we recommend the establishment of the Ministry of Finance to issue the adoption of the following financial documents (as stipulated by the Financial Administration Act):
A pre-budget report (budget): a strategy which includes the offer of economic and fiscal policies of the government objectives in the medium to long term, and shows the income, expenditure and deficit or surplus and debt projections, (should this report be published one month before the offer budget) project.
(beer) monthly reports : show monthly progress reports on implementation of the budget, as it should be issued within ((three weeks)) from the end of each month, including the amounts of revenues and expenses every month and in the time that passed from the public until the reporting date, and should be compared numbers what is expected from the monthly income and expenses, and should include information on the reports Olaguetradi government activity.
C- mid-year report: This report provides a comprehensive overview of the implementation of the budget and the performance of the budget for the current year and for the fiscal years following, at least, must be issued within six weeks from the end of the first half of the fiscal year, This report contains a comprehensive discussion of the assets of the government's financial liabilities and assets is Financial allocations retirees and emergency salaries, that disclosure of the impact of any government decision, or any other circumstances would be left to materially impact on the budget.
W end of the year: report is a document of basic accountability of the government and should be subject to scrutiny by the highest institution in the field of audit and issued within six months before the end of the fiscal year. The report shows the extent of compliance with the level of income and expenditure approved by Parliament in the budget, and any amendment to the original budget during the year, and submit to the corresponding formula for quite a formula to provide the budget. The report also contains documents relating to the non-financial performance targets and the actual results that have been achieved, the total expenditure data formats and deduct income allocated costs users clearly, the tunnels data by the administrative body, and a comprehensive discussion of the assets.
, Taking into consideration the confirmation Law Financial Management, which states explicitly on three separate paragraphs with transparency in budget preparation and execution, may be considered non-observance of the subject without unjustified violation of the law.
We all hope you find our sympathy ....
Yours appreciation and respect
(*) Member of the Board of Trustees of the Iraqi Institute for Economic Reform
02/11/2015
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- PUBLISHED ON 23.02.2015
HE the Minister of Finance Mr. Hoshyar Zebari, Esquire Thread / transparency of the federal budget Nhdakm my best greetings ... We are writing to you hoping that your covenant is achieved on a single mission of the vocabulary of the application of good governance ...
HE the Minister of Finance Mr. Hoshyar Zebari, Esquire
Thread / transparency of the federal budget
Nhdakm my best greetings ...
We are writing to you hoping that your covenant achieved on a single mission of the vocabulary of good governance of public money application. Budget Transparency Foundation (www I have posted. Internationalbudget.org) on 01/22/2013 for evaluation of the transparency of budgets in the countries of the world, and it was Iraq sequence for other countries is low (in the last peace), a condition that does not fit with Iraq as a democratic reputation (of functions of public access to the government's policy to dispose of public money) in the previous political era Taatattabr budget, especially the political leadership ordered the details alone.
The weakness of budget transparency indicators in Iraq is not due to the existence of legal difficulties or technical capabilities within the Ministry of Finance, but not to realize the importance and priority. You have already Iraqi Institute for Economic Reform said the 2008 is definitely on the necessity of adopting the Ministry of Finance the principle of transparency in the preparation and implementation of the federal budget, and in 2010 obtained the support of the Minister of Finance to appeal, but the ministry Ajhzat defaulted on the implementation of it!
What is required to play the Finance Ministry to publish all the budget and are accessible to citizens and all stakeholders and the issuance of the citizen that demonstrates the federal budget is simplified for all citizens budget booklet documents (in the past year, the volunteers Institute to issue "balancing citizen" was donated to the ministry did not find our initiative any echo of by the Ministry of Finance).
That the absence of budget transparency is incompatible with the spirit of the Constitution (which states that public money belongs to the citizens), and with the international commitments of Iraq transparency information. The lack of transparency contributed to the inefficient use of public money, and then widening the gap between the home and the political elite. That needs to be done is simply to disseminate information issued by the Ministry of Finance, which annually, according to the law of financial management and the website of the Ministry.
Currently at universities and research centers can not take advantage of the budget to contribute to the preparation of the economic reform studies, for example, the face of the institute more than one application to the Ministry of Finance to clarify the amount of government support for energy, especially oil derivatives ... and as usual neglect such requests !!
The continued decline in the transparency of the federal budget index, along with high corruption index, and the failure of economic business issued by international institutions that indicators (Doing Business Survey) Iraq will be deprived of investment companies sober opportunities in the Iraqi economy, which is contributing to the block the transfer of technology and advanced management practices to develop the sector the public and private end worst. In addition to the foregoing that transparency is Ahadday vocabulary of good management and governance necessary to support the rule of law and the fight against Alvesadh and raise the efficiency of overall performance, and otherwise difficult to achieve progress in the implementation of good governance and raise the global credit-Iraqi indicators. In order to Ataatkrr experience of past years, we recommend the establishment of the Ministry of Finance to issue the adoption of the following financial documents (as stipulated by the Financial Administration Act):
A pre-budget report (budget): a strategy which includes the offer of economic and fiscal policies of the government objectives in the medium to long term, and shows the income, expenditure and deficit or surplus and debt projections, (should this report be published one month before the offer budget) project.
(beer) monthly reports : show monthly progress reports on implementation of the budget, as it should be issued within ((three weeks)) from the end of each month, including the amounts of revenues and expenses every month and in the time that passed from the public until the reporting date, and should be compared numbers what is expected from the monthly income and expenses, and should include information on the reports Olaguetradi government activity.
C- mid-year report: This report provides a comprehensive overview of the implementation of the budget and the performance of the budget for the current year and for the fiscal years following, at least, must be issued within six weeks from the end of the first half of the fiscal year, This report contains a comprehensive discussion of the assets of the government's financial liabilities and assets is Financial allocations retirees and emergency salaries, that disclosure of the impact of any government decision, or any other circumstances would be left to materially impact on the budget.
W end of the year: report is a document of basic accountability of the government and should be subject to scrutiny by the highest institution in the field of audit and issued within six months before the end of the fiscal year. The report shows the extent of compliance with the level of income and expenditure approved by Parliament in the budget, and any amendment to the original budget during the year, and submit to the corresponding formula for quite a formula to provide the budget. The report also contains documents relating to the non-financial performance targets and the actual results that have been achieved, the total expenditure data formats and deduct income allocated costs users clearly, the tunnels data by the administrative body, and a comprehensive discussion of the assets.
, Taking into consideration the confirmation Law Financial Management, which states explicitly on three separate paragraphs with transparency in budget preparation and execution, may be considered non-observance of the subject without unjustified violation of the law.
We all hope you find our sympathy ....
Yours appreciation and respect
(*) Member of the Board of Trustees of the Iraqi Institute for Economic Reform
02/11/2015
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