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Government taxes quenched low-income
On: Thu 1/12/2012 8:04
□ Baghdad / term economic
government decided to extinguish the tax people with limited income and who have not been prompted by and for the last three years.
He said government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh, according to the agency "Twilight News" "The Council of Ministers approved the establishment of the Ministry of Finance put out the debt owed to the government on taxpayers with limited income and who have not been demanding tax consequences to them, for the period from 1/1/2009 until 31/12/2011. "
Dabbagh said that "consent to extinguish the debt and exempted from the payment comes the interest of the Government to help a large segment of taxpayers with low incomes through the exemption from such taxes accumulated may not be able to pay, leading to the addition of the burden of additional financial burdens imposed upon them, as well as line with the provisions of the Constitution. "
It is said that Article 28 of the Constitution stipulates that "exempting low-income tax to ensure that no prejudice to the minimum necessary for a living and be regulated by law."
Dabbagh said that "Article (20) of the General Budget Law for 2008 has included doubling the amount of allowances tax to the employee contained in item I of Article (12) of the Income Tax Law No. (113) for the year 1982 and double the amounts for the measurement of tax contained in Article (13) of the Act where the directive has been issued by the Prime Minister to stop withholding tax on exceptional provision and exempt state employees from taxes imposed on the allocations as of June 1, 2008 and confirmed in the draft supplementary budget for 2008. "
Dabbagh said that "the budget law for 2009, which delayed its release until April 13, 2009 did not include the text of the exemptions referred to in the law of the budget in 2008 as the tax laws have no retroactive effect based on the provisions of Article (19 / IX). "
Ali al-Dabbagh, the Ministry of Finance, in coordination with the General Commission for Taxes has prepared a draft law to address this issue through the continued application of the tax exemptions as of 1/1/2009 until 31/12/2011 Based on the provisions of paragraph (11) of Section IV of the financial management and public debt is issued under the now defunct Coalition Provisional Authority No. (95) for the year 2004 average. "
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