BAKU, Azerbaijan, Feb. 2
Trend:
The head of Iran`s Planning and Budget Organization announced that the government's oil revenues have increased with the permission of the parliament.
Mohammad Baqer Nobakht, Vice President and the Head of the Planning and Budget Organization delivered his speck in a public session of the parliament today, on Tuesday, February 2, after expressing pros and cons of the next year`s budget bill, Trend reports citing Fars News Agency.
“The draft of the next Iranian calendar year 1400 (starts on March 21), budget bill has been submitted to the parliament on December 2, 2020, and the MPs raised their issues regarding the draft. The first criticism raised was about the budget`s resources and expenditures,” he said asking whether these bugs have been fixed.
The vice president pointed out that the public resources mentioned in the next year`s budget bill by the government were estimated at $200 billion, but today this figure has increased to $266 billion by the parliament.
Referring to the MP`s criticizes the budget`s dependence on oil he says that $3.8 billion of revenue have been directly added to oil revenues with the permission of the parliament.
“The parliament allowed the government to increase these revenues,” he said.
He went on to ask the parliament to lower the foreign exchange rate.