Africa-Press – Angola. The National Assembly published, in the Official Gazette dated December 29th, the recommendations approved by the deputies resulting from the assessment and discussion of the OGE for the 2024 financial year, which establishes that 50 percent be subtracted from the budget entered under the department’s travel heading ministries, to reinforce social programs.
The planned cuts, with the exception of sovereign bodies and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, aim to benefit the Program to Combat Poverty, the Book and Reading Promotion Program, the National Employment Fund and scientific research to support postgraduate courses.
In accordance with the resolutions approved by the deputies, in the context of discussion and approval of the OGE 2024, the land access mechanisms provided for in Law no. 9/04, of 9 November – Land Law will be reviewed, as well as simplified the process of regularization and registration of properties, with a view to providing greater legal certainty and security for investors and the expansion of the Property Tax tax base.
The submission of the General State Budget Proposals, from now on, must be accompanied by the report assessing the level of execution of the recommendations of the previous budget and the Annual Development Plan of the respective economic year, as well as the gender and gender markers being taken up in the next budgets. of social inclusion.
In the opinion of the deputies, the financial year 2024 and the following years, the Financial Balance Reports must reflect in an analytical way the real results obtained with the implementation of the various social projects/programs, in terms of the number of beneficiaries and to the respective incidence areas. Along the same lines, the accountability of public accounts managers should be improved.
The deputies also recommended that attention be paid to the risk of over-indebtedness, taking into account the constant rise in interest rates in international financial markets, as they consider it imperative to continue the downward trajectory of public debt to levels close to 60 percent of the Gross Domestic Product, taking into account its weight in the social sector.
As part of the payment of public debt of a commercial nature, parliamentarians defend that priority should be given to small and medium-sized companies, in order to strengthen the national business community, avoiding its bankruptcy.
“That mechanisms for reporting and controlling taxpayers who fail to issue standardized invoices with VAT included should be improved, especially in small shopping centers”, we also read in the Diário da República.
The next budgets, to be sent to the National Assembly, must include, as an annex, a list of public utility institutions with a breakdown of their respective funds, for control and inspection purposes.
Parliamentarians suggest, in the same document, the improvement of mechanisms for dialogue and permanent communication between public utility institutions and social partners with the different ministerial departments and provincial governments. They add, by the way, that this dialogue should be intensified during periods of preparation and preparation of the OGE.
It is also the recommendation of the deputies that in the next years, in the revenue chapter, the contributions of other minerals explored in the national territory be reflected in detail, instead of being presented in aggregate form.
In the context of public investments, parliamentarians defend that priority should be given to the completion of ongoing projects, being an indispensable condition for the registration of new projects, except in those justifiable situations in which the national interest cannot be postponed.
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