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The Chairman of the Financial and Economic Affairs Committee in the House of Representatives, Ahmed Al -Salloum, confirmed that the committee achieved the highest completion rate during the third regular session of the sixth legislative term, with a rate of 97%, while 3% remains for topics under study, which was represented in 3 projects with laws and a proposal with one desire.
He pointed out that the committee received 137 issues referred to it during the third session, varied between 51 requests for the committee, 25 proposals with a desire, 33 laws, 16 law proposals and 5 decrees of law, as the committee discussed the reserve account for future generations, the unified final account of the state, insurance accounting for disruption, and the final account of the House of Representatives, stressing that the committee has completed the largest number of major topics This role.
Al -Salloum explained that the committee raised 79 reports, and submitted 51 opinions, while the number of correspondence issued 574 correspondence, and held 43 meetings in which the largest rate of labor meetings of 33 meet The committee’s opinion on 51 topics.
He said that the largest achievement of the committee was the draft law on adopting the general budget of the state, where 9 joint consultative and coordination meetings were held, which resulted in the approval of approval of the public budget, in addition to a group of consensus, the most prominent of which is the failure to raise the percentage of added value, and the annual increase of retirees by maintaining an increase in the allowance for improving the living of 40 dinars, and continuing to develop the quality of government services and adopt the financing of projects and programs of housing sectors Education, infrastructure, health and work.
He noted the study of the committee on the draft income tax law on foreign investment, which will have a prominent role in covering the older women and contributing to the return rate of the annual increase «3%» to which retirees aspire. He said that the committee also studied the external financial transfers tax on expatriates residing in the Kingdom, the draft law on the guaranteed transactions, in addition to international agreements to remove double taxation and encourage and protect investment.
