Parliamentary Finance: Prime Minister has a real will to enhance non-oil revenues

Baghdad-INA 
The Parliamentary Finance Committee confirmed, today, Friday, that Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has a real will to enhance non-oil revenues, while indicating that work is being done to reduce taxpayers' wages in the event of a shift to electronic payment.
 
The head of the committee, Atwan al-Atwani, said in a statement to the Iraqi News Agency (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 to reach the conviction that oil cannot be relied upon as a primary source in the budget, because oil is subject to shocks and is unstable and works on supply and demand, and therefore countries cannot be built using unstable rent revenues."
 
Al-Atwani stressed that "the Finance Committee is serious about proceeding with the issue of non-oil revenues, and the electronic payment conference is considered an important step to achieve these revenues, given that the revenues collected through the paper system are marred by a lot of corruption."
 
  "We are working to reduce taxpayers' wages in the event of a shift to electronic payment so that it will be an incentive for the citizen." Al-Atwani said.
He continued, "The trend towards electronic payment is not only in the government sector, but the private sector must be empowered because it is not beneficial to go to the tax office and pay electronically and go to the private sector, such as the mall, market, etc., and pay in cash," stressing, "the necessity of empowering the private sector and for electronic payment devices to be available in all its institutions."