SULAIMANI (ESTA) — The Kurdistan Region has not handed over revenue of oil exports to the federal government, said the Iraqi finance minister.
Minister Ali Allaw said in response to a lawmaker that Baghdad had not received revenues from the amount of oil exported by the Kurdistan Region, according to a letter sent to MP Falih Hassan Khazali.
“The Kurdistan Region has not sent any tables of revenues between 2014 and 2020 [to the federal government],” the minister added.
Last month, Samir Hawrami, spokesman of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) deputy prime minister, said a KRG delegation had given data and information about oil and non-oil revenues to the federal government.
Despite a series of meetings between Iraqi and Kurdish officials, Baghdad and Erbil have yet to reach a final agreement on their suspending issues, including oil and border crossings.
A high-level KRG delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani visited Baghdad several times in the past months for talks with Iraqi officials and lawmakers on the 2021 federal budget.
The draft budget law commits the Kurdistan Region to hand over 250,000 barrels of oil per day and non-oil revenue to Baghdad in exchange for the Region’s share of the budget.
