Weighted warns of the reluctance of investors about the economic sectors in Jordan

Warned economist, Dr. Khalid Al-weighted of the reluctance of investors to come to Jordan because of tax policies.

The weighted, in a lecture given by the Jordanian Association for Science and Culture, said that "the government's handling of the private sector as an enemy and became its constituents across the pages of newspapers."

He added that "the Finance Committee in the Senate agreed to the Income Tax Act at a glance the eye and within ten minutes just to the government's pledges of international institutions in exchange for 820 million international loan, but the Commission, she is a fee amendment to the law, and this goes against the transparency and legal stability, and the law basically useless and the government invoke that reason to admit is that the gain (96%) of citizens to Aadfon income tax and the fact that overlooked by government (100%) of the citizens are paying sales tax. and that the tax burden in Jordan added him after income indirect taxes and tax charges .

He said in the lecture, which was led by Dr. Samir Amish about the budget year 2015 and their impact on the Jordanian economy, "the government announced two weeks ago a tendency to mobilize A vacancy in the coming year with the need for jobs in Jordan, 100 thousand jobs in the sense that about 90 thousand young people would turn to bomb ticking on the street.

He added that "the general government policies in the workplace lead to the export of Jordanian workers, citing remarks one labor ministers when he said that" Our concern is to look how to provide job opportunities for Jordanians abroad. "

And that "the unemployment index where a large defect size frustration to make the reluctance of young men and women looking for work is the secret of the low unemployment rate, this category to interfere in the Mini Jordan is the highest unemployment rate in the region and the world, according to the Global Reporting reached 30% and there are 325 thousand Syrian workers entered the Jordanian market versus 130 thousand Jordanian unemployed. "

He expressed his conviction that "the budget, which seeks to Tkmich public sector movement and adjust the spending and tax collection will not only be successful balancing must create the real sovereign fund investments."

He said that "Jordan is not a poor country and poverty is not in resources but also in the management of these resources is sufficient to Jordanians remit annually (3.6) billion dollars from abroad." He added that "the form of external grants (15-20)% of revenue in the budget and this grave danger because her dearly politically, socially and economically. What accounted for 99% of the grants exploited in current expenditures and not for the development of the production process."

He pointed out that "the indebtedness of the state in 1989 was the official debt of the countries and international official institutions and it was easy debt and swap it for scheduling or exemption or reduced but indebtedness now including 85% of the expenses of going to 15% of credit and this is Ataatm tabulated and can not be exemption or reduction, and $ 21 billion and will reach $ 23 billion, a non-reimbursable, because of the benefits, a major burden on current generations before the next. "And discussed the attendance of members of the Assembly ideas cited by D.wazzna former minister Abdel-Hafez Shakhanbeh said that "the main supplier in Jordan is the human resource is managed poorly and here defect in education policy. We have between (60-70) thousand per year graduate student, and need the actual government to 9 thousand only FINE rest will go? ".

He pointed out that "the latest statistics indicate the presence of (447) thousand government employees' salaries are paid from the state treasury is retired."

The MP said Atef Kawar that "the tax law to cook over a fire of urgency as the council froze the budget debate after falling oil price and then continued." He said the "tax revenues to the treasury constitute 80% of the budget and budget expenditures go 97% salaries and loans due and service the public debt."

He warned m. Necati Shakhshir than a year in 2015 is the year of the divorce between the government and private capital, saying, "The more laws that were approved impact on large and medium-sized companies are the Social Security Act, which raise the subscription ratio and the law increased the tax rate."

M.man Irshaidat pointed to the existence of a gap between the "special figures transfers workers in Jordan and an annual $ 4.8 billion a year, while the Jordanian expatriates' remittances of $ 3.6 billion."

The head of the Assembly M.smir Habashna "We are the country of missed opportunities and could have had the Iraqi capital at the disposal of the national capital, but the transfer of his works abroad and remained families in Jordan. If we stay on this case will flee the Jordanian capital. We must temper of bureaucracy and restructure identity economic state. "

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