************ Experts: normal budget and taxes are losing billions of dollars as a result of tax evasion and corruption Alcomerk

12/26/2014 19:31



Long-Presse / Baghdad

Experts and officials confirmed, that Iraq is losing annually an amount up to $ 20 billion in tax revenues, due to corruption fulfillment of customs duties in the border ports and tax evasion.



This comes at a time of Article 33 of the 2015 draft budget law states that "the imposition of new taxes on Kartat communication and online sales by 20%, and cars of all types and tickets are 15% that the Ministry of Finance issued instructions for the implementation of this Article."

Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister of this type of tax promise as a "high quality and easy-to-attainment financial returns resources", was described as an economist draft budget as a "professional balancing", and that the taxes included in "non-provocative."

And ended the House of Representatives, on Thursday, the first reading of the draft budget law for fiscal 2015, and referred to the legal and financial committees, to be read a second time later.

The Council of Ministers approved, last Tuesday, the federal budget B123 trillion dinars and a deficit of 23 trillion dinars, while the Council pointed out that the speculative price of oil was about $ 60 a barrel.

Under the budget to plug internal borrowing, and to authorize the Ministry of Finance external borrowing, as well as the imposition of taxes on some goods and services in addition to the use of "forced savings" for people with high salaries.

Commenting on the final shape of the budget, says the appearance of Mohammed Saleh, an economic advisor to the Prime Minister, that the "new materials which imposed taxes in the 2015 budget carries a high income and easy achievement."

Saleh added, in an interview with the "long", that "the government is facing difficulty in obtaining tax than other sectors, but the resources that will be reported method levy taxes easier way."

Economic adviser explains that "the government has started since the beginning of this year to activate taxes on more than 105 items, including gold jewelry, perfume, alcohol and cigarettes as well as the taxes paid by the oil companies."



Parliamentary Finance Committee and reflect on the discussion of the budget, is scheduled to hold a meeting next Monday to complete the study.

He says committee member Abdul Qader Mohammed that "Article 33 in the budget law touched on luxury materials and the opulence and excessive use."

It is proposed that a member of the Finance Committee, in a statement to the "long", to "raise your car tax to 100% to reduce the number of wheels that go in the streets and cause great Bazdhamat" and felt that "the amount of cheap communications in Iraq relative to neighboring countries, and that the Iraqis were using Sometimes phones excessively, while the consumer in other countries used by emergency and necessary cases and uses text messaging - trowels - instead of lengthy talks. "

He adds MP Abdul Qader Mohammed "should be checking on other taxes obtained from cigarettes and alcohol and imposing taxes on soft drinks, household appliances and other luxury items."

But a member of the Finance Committee believes that "gold jewelery hard currency must be allowed to enter the wealth of being a national", noting that "the oil companies that pay taxes and do not want to taxes chargeable unto them new to the importance of the role played by the Iraqi economy."

In the same regard, confirms Bassem Jamil Antoine, an economist, said that "Iraq is facing problems in the collection of taxes and customs fees, due to the existence of financial and administrative corruption and security conditions that prevailed in the country."

Stresses Antoine, in his statement, "long" that "the Iraqi government got a billion dollars as income tax in 2013 at a time that the estimated tax should have a minimum of 16 to 18 billion dollars."

Attention economist to "the existence of evasion of customs duties due to a change origins and nature of the material entering through border ports, and evasion of income tax levied by 15% of the surplus income generated for those with economic activity and investors, importers and high income earners."

Antoine confirms that "the government for not considering the development of a provocative nature of taxes," and felt that "the government has tried to dilute the tax distribution in Article 33 of the general budget and not show their effects directly."

Iraqi economist promised that "the decisions that were included in the budget was a professional and well thought out thoroughly, and used high returns and quick collection such as mobile phones, which includes between 15 to 20 million common resources," pointing out that "the tax on tickets aimed at the luxury class with the exception of Travel for the purpose of treatment. "

He says Bassem Jamil Antoine said that "taxes received in the new budget would not target the middle-income and below, as it is supposed to provide those taxes in return services for those classes and 4.5 million workers in the private sector who are working without health or vocational ensure through expansion projects investment laws and legislation to protect their rights. "

He adds Antoine "Maybe these taxes will be temporary until the crossing of the financial crisis and filling Agr, but if positive results presented at the social level and reduce the differences between social classes will be transformed into a permanent order, especially since some of the parties had demanded to take similar measures, such as the Liberal Movement, the first Party adopts this subject. "

It notes the economist that "the situation in Iraq in 2010, a schedule of taxes and customs duties but not implemented until the beginning of this year," noting that "the table divides the material entering into three sections: luxury and semi-luxury and necessary."

Antoine said that "the first section includes alcohol and luxury cars and the taxes it up to 88%, and the second section less money, while the final section, which touches the lives of most Iraqis and needs daily ratio does not exceed 5%."


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