Parliament finances talk about the deficit of the budget: we will adopt this mechanism to fill it, 31 MAY

 Parliament finances talk about the deficit of the budget: we will adopt this mechanism to fill it

Economy News - Baghdad

Today, Thursday (May 30, 2024), the Parliamentary Finance Committee revealed the mechanism for bridging the financial deficit in the fiscal budget for the year 2024 sent by the government to the House of Representatives.

Committee member Moeen Al-Kazemi said that "the 2024 budget, according to the schedules sent by the government to the House of Representatives, amounts to (211) trillion dinars, and the government's oil and non-oil revenues amount to (147) trillion dinars, and this means that the deficit will be (64) trillion dinars, and we in the Finance Committee will follow up on this issue and give our perceptions regarding addressing the deficit in the upper limit."

Al-Kazemi indicated that "the government wants to address this deficit by borrowing from the Central Bank of Iraq in the amount of (20) trillion dinars and from other banks with a value of (5) trillion dinars and issuing new national bonds with (5) trillion dinars, and with a rise in oil prices, up to (16) trillion dinars, and for this we will have multiple meetings with the competent government agencies to find out the details of that process and how it is possible to fill the deficit away from borrowing and reduce it."

On Wednesday (May 22, 2024), the Parliamentary Finance Committee began holding its first meeting after receiving the 2024 budget tables, to review the budget tables and start studying them for the purpose of proceeding with their approval.

Later, the Finance Committee confirmed in a statement that it held its first meeting on the Federal Budget Law for the year 2024 with the aim of developing a comprehensive plan to review and analyze the budget tables and items related to them after their arrival from the Prime Minister's Office.