Deputy: Iraq’s dependence on oil will enter with falling real crisis
Bloc MP for the Liberal Messenger Tai morning, Saturday, the government and the ministries concerned student to find an alternative to oil for the financing of public budgets for the coming years, considering that the continued decline in oil prices will enter Iraq in a real crisis could announce bankruptcy.
He said al-Tai said in a statement received “direction Press” a copy of it, that “in light of the low price of a barrel of oil on world markets and the tense situation in the region, has to be on the government and the ministries concerned to find an alternative to oil for financing and building public budgets for the coming years.”
He said al-Tai, the “oil imports represent annually more than 90% of the general budget size, and must find another resource for the budget,” pointing out that “the wages of collection to the Municipality of Baghdad and some of the ministries on the ads, shops and factories, businesses and restaurants, as well as taxes on companies mobile phone and customs tariff and other, will be a good improbable for the government to fill some of the deficit to the draft budget. “
He said al-Tai, “The government’s dependence on oil imports, and regarded as a major supplier of the budget in light of the decline to $ 33, will enter Iraq in a real crisis could announce bankruptcy in the coming years.”
It is said that the House of Representatives, in a voice (December 16, 2015) by a vote of those present on the draft budget law for fiscal 2016 valued at more than 105 trillion dinars, and a deficit of more than 24 trillion dinars, considered on the basis of the price of a barrel of oil to 45 dollars.