What are the conditions of the International Monetary Fund in return for granting the loan for Iraq ?!

May 23, 2016 19:04



A source at the Finance Ministry, on Monday that the IMF loan to impose conditions for Iraq in exchange for granting a loan include a tax on Mozvin.ujae salaries in the details of the agreement concluded by Iraq with the International Monetary Fund, during the past two days, and which stipulates granting a loan preliminary exceed five billion dollars:

1 - that this agreement is not the first, was preceded by two agreements: one in 2005, and the settlement of Iraq's obligations with creditors in the Paris Club, and the other in 2008, to address the repercussions of the sharp decline in oil prices at the time.

2 - the value of the loan is 5.4 billion [billion] dollars.

3 - The interest rate on this loan does not exceed 1.5% per annum.

4 - assumed that this loan helps to strengthen the creditworthiness of Iraq, and raise the credit rating, the building 'financial umbrella | Pave the way for the establishment of the seven major industrialized nations [G7] to provide credit facilities for Iraq amounts could reach more than $ 15 billion, and within these facilities to help Iraq to ease the burden of repayment obligations with the Paris Club, as well as those relating to the payment of international financial obligations, in addition for obtaining additional financial support from the World Bank, and other countries.

5 - that this loan will help reduce the 'extra' deficit in the state budget, the impact of the drop in oil prices, and to follow the procedures help reduce the total deficit [ie, the total deficit in the state budget.

Second requirements

1 - that the Iraqi government to take necessary measures to reduce expenditure in the state budget for fiscal year 2016.

2 - take measures to settle the dues of oil companies, and do not let Petrakmha.

3. full salary and allowances for senior subordinate state employees, functional upper grades, and private, to income tax. These range from tax [by different income segments] between 7.5% to 15% of the total salary and allowances, while the lower grades, it imposes income on nominal salary only, without tax allowances

4 - rehabilitation [or restructuring] self-funded public companies.

5. work hard to raise the efficiency and performance of the financial regulatory agencies in the country, at all levels, and impose strict controls on the doors of disposition of this loan.


Third, other information:

1 - There are controls for the collection of public service wages, to take into account the living conditions of low-income people.

2 - will not raise fuel prices [types], because oil prices are currently low, and because existing prices are rewarding for the government.

2 - There is no requirement laid off workers in the government sector.

3 - There are no conditions permit stamped on the ration cards, nor salaries of social protection network, and not government subsidies provided to the displaced.

From the above, the social costs are difficult to this Agreement, are those associated with the repercussions of negative to cut public spending [in the absence of almost entirely of institutions capable of allocating available the best possible ways and means of economic resources, and the lack of the ability to pursue a management efficient public money, and also those costs associated with the taxation of the salaries of all employees.

As for how to dispose of the amount of the loan, check spent on the purposes for which has been allocated for it originally, and achieve the main objectives of it, the burden of implementation and follow-up in question, it will be the responsibility of the international parties involved and supportive of this agreement [basic degree, and not the responsibility of the Iraqi government alone.


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Tuesday , 24 May 2016 - 05:01
Member of the parliamentary finance: IMF required Iraq to impose income tax on employees



Announced the parliamentary finance committee member Masood Haider, Tuesday, that Iraq is obliged to certify financial budget bill each year according to the International Monetary Fund standards, while noting that the government will impose income tax on staff commitment to the demand of the Fund.

Haider said in an interview with Alsumaria's News, he said that "Iraq will be obliged to certify financial budget for each year according to the International Monetary Fund Standards Act," noting that "from within the Fund's conditions on Iraq's commitment to it, is to reduce expenses 13 trillion dinars and payments to the oil companies, In addition to the issue of the imposition of income tax in accordance with specific proportion. "


Haider said that "the income tax levied on the employee currently by deducting a small part of his salary," pointing out that "no one knows where to go wills, which are deducted from salaries."

"The Fund demands that Iraq operation and investment and diversifying the sources of state and the private sector," pointing out that "in general loan fund for Iraq well and by very little benefit and contribute to building Rashid of the Iraqi economy."

He agreed IMF and the World Bank and international partners fund, in the May 19, 2016, to give Iraq a loan of $ 15 billion, an interest rate of 1.5%.


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