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Invitations to the activation of fiscal federalism in the distribution of imports and budget
Date: Mon 01/16/2012 6:46
□ Baghdad / term
called a number of experts and analysts to the adoption of fiscal federalism and expanding the role of the provincial councils in the disbursement of budget for fiscal year 2012, stressing that the advancement of infrastructure in Iraq and the implementation of key services should be made through the application of this concept.
The academic at the University of Mustansiriya Bilal Kadhim told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that "the application of the concept of fiscal federalism and expand the powers of provincial councils after being qualified well on the mechanism of exchange of budgets and implementation of projects."
and called it the "benefit of the Japanese experience, where domestic spending from the budget to 54% of total government spending, and succeeded in the distribution of resources in a balanced way to all parts of the country. "
The Kazem that Iraq grant "12%, of all the powers of the budget, which last much provincial councils in the implementation of service projects the task because of the administrative complexities in The disbursement of the budget. "
, said deputy chief economist Ahmed Abreha (Rn) that "the benefit of fiscal federalism will contribute in making the population and income at the local level and can solve the problems and needs key to citizens."
He added that "the federal financial help to speed up decision-making compared to the financial system Central and reduce costs and communications. " He pointed to the existence of some of the problems facing the reservations to the fiscal federalism, including the state and economic unit and they should be the elements to prevent the distribution of the financial revenues of the oil is balanced. "
, said an economist and member of the Iraqi businessmen Abdul Karim Turaihi s (Rn) "the financial revenues of the oil can not be distributed by Iraq in the form of a system the provinces to that still revolves around the central system in the trading of Finance."
He pointed out that "the mechanism for disbursement of the budget must be based on the census real and not on speculation," explaining that "the problem of annual facing financial budget is the reliance on estimates are not accurate and are in the process of disbursement of the financial budget. "
For his part, said a member of the Finance Committee representative Haytham Jubouri (Rn) that "the budget was originally distributed to the ratio of each province of the population but there are some problems facing the process of disbursement" He added, "of the most prominent of those obstacles is the administrative and bureaucratic procedures facing the provinces in the process of disbursement of financial budgets."
The value of the budget in 2012 that was approved by the government earlier $ 100 billion and a deficit of up to $ 13.5 billion, and focused on the energy sector and oil the first phase , and then the security sector, and beyond the sectors of education and health.
The Government has adopted the oil price base of $ 85 and expect that the differences in the price of oil will cover more than $ 10 billion deficit.
and imposes a financial budget the Iraqi ministries and government bodies to provide Khovatha financial quarter The first of the year following the budget year. According to the Iraqi Council of Representatives, it had not seen the final accounts since 2005 until now, and blames the government for not submitting the final accounts prior to the unstable conditions experienced by the country. and carried the Ministry of Finance earlier in the ministries and government bodies responsible for failure to submit financial statements to the budgets of the years 2008, 2009 and 2010 because of the neglect is justified in the final submission of accounts for fiscal spending.
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