PM Advisor: Electronic tax collection will achieve greater growth in non-oil revenues this year

Baghdad-INA
Prime Minister's financial advisor, Mazhar Mohammed Saleh, confirmed on Friday that positive indicators in electronic tax collections will be evident throughout the current fiscal year 2025.

Saleh told the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "Although digital collection began last year 2024 in a gradual and effective manner, achieving a leap in these collections, exceeding 6 trillion dinars in the aforementioned fiscal year, is an indicator that reinforces the phenomenon of maximizing the growth of cash flow through digital systems to support the unified treasury account within a high-level and quality digital network connection and in the interest of consolidating general budget revenues, which is something we expect to take broader growth levels in collecting non-oil revenues in the current year."

He added, "These positive indicators in electronic collections will occupy a comprehensive space in the current fiscal year, reflecting the development of state revenues as a result of the accelerated transition to the use of electronic systems, which often leads to increased efficiency, reduced corruption, and improved transparency in the collection process. They represent an optimal application of the government program in one aspect of e-governance, namely the public finance aspect, which is strongly moving towards the use of modern information and communications technology systems to achieve the country's financial policy objectives of accurately and sustainably collecting non-oil resources."