Akhannouch’s cabinet will deposit the Finance Bill in Parliament within the legal deadline, says government’s spokesman

The government will deposit the Finance Bill in the House of Representatives within the legal deadline, said Mustafa Baitas, Minister in charge of Relations with Parliament and the government’s official spokesman.

The Finance Organizing Law obligates the government to deposit the Finance Bill, in priority, with the House of Representatives office on October 20 of the current fiscal year at the latest.

“We completed the procedure for preparing the draft Finance Act today, Monday, October 18, with the approval of the Government Council […] and we have two days now to deposit it in the House of Representatives,” said the minister as he denied any stumbling or confusion in the deposit of the Finance Act in the House of Representatives.

The Minister in charge of Relations with Parliament and the government’s official spokesman considered depositing the Finance Act in the House of Representatives and giving parliamentarians an opportunity to review it a beneficial procedure to the Council, as he added that “the Finance Bill establishes a social state and includes unprecedented social measures.”

The Ministerial Council approved in its meeting on Sunday the general directions of the new government’s finance Act.

According to a statement issued by the royal palace spokesperson, the general directions of the Finance Act for the year 2022 are based on four main axes: strengthening the foundations for the recovery of the national economy, strengthening integration mechanisms and continuing to generalize social protection, rehabilitating human capital and reforming the public sector and strengthening governance mechanisms

Akhannouch cabinet vows also to focus on implementing management reform, by activating the public utilities charter, simplifying administrative procedures, generalizing digital management, and implementing the administrative decentralization charter.