Baghdad – IA – Wissam Al-Mulla
The Parliamentary Finance Committee confirmed, today, Friday, that Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani has a real will to enhance non-oil revenues, while indicating work to reduce taxpayers’ wages if they switch to electronic payment.
The head of the committee, Atwan Al-Atwani, said in a statement to the (INA): “There is a real will by the Prime Minister to enhance non-oil revenues,” noting that “enhancing non-oil revenues was adopted by the Finance Committee because it reached the conviction that it is not possible to rely on oil.” “As a primary source in the budget, because oil is exposed to earthquakes and is unstable and works on supply and demand, and therefore states cannot be built using unstable rentier revenues.”
Al-Atwani stressed, “The Finance Committee is serious about moving forward with the issue of non-oil revenues, and the electronic payment conference is considered an important step to achieve those revenues, given that the revenues collected through the paper system are tainted with a lot of corruption.”
He added, “We are working to reduce taxpayers’ wages if we switch to electronic payment so that it will be an incentive for the citizen.”
He continued, “The trend towards electronic payment is not limited to the government sector, but rather the private sector must be empowered because it is not beneficial to go to the tax office and pay electronically. We go to the private sector, from a mall, market, etc., and pay in cash,” stressing, “the necessity of empowering the private sector and that it be… Electronic payment devices are available in all its institutions.