• "The Economy" discusses the major challenges in the journey of transition of the vision 2030

    05/09/2016

            Kingdom  intention was not about transformation in the framework of  a total project vision, just a passing dream, but turned it into determination and   and officially announced by the government decision by the goal of excluding oil and rearrange the administrative house, entitled the performance and progress with the efficiency of outputs. "The economy" in its latest copy searched for the determinants of the central challenges for such a giant project for change in the nature of the performance and production of government system, as there is expected to be a megaproject, especially that the parties to its success include all aspects of government sectors, also the transfer of the target and the nature involving the basic change in performance and outputs.
    "The economy," the magazine of  
    Asharqia Chamber  in spotting the major challenges reported that the harmony of methodology and adjusting differences is one of the major pillars in challenging journey for 2030 ambitious, as the interested in the strategic management and policy making  Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Shahrani thinks that the Saudi Vision is a big leap in the methodology the work of the highest leadership of the  country  and the strategic management of the government, for many reasons, the most important is the high level of transparency and clarity, and the standards of performance and and the involvement of citizens and media in spotting the implementation, in addition to the inclusion of a program of regional and international standards values ​​to compare the target values ​​in the program, reflecting confidence in achieving them.
    Shahrani sees a difference in some of the ambitions of the ministries and their goals contained in the program document, there are ministries exaggerated the goals that seek to achieve during the program period of four years, while there are other ministries exaggerated the reservation and reduced the needed during the same period. He mentioned the first goal of the Ministry of Energy and Industry and Mineral Resources included raising exports of non oil commodity value of 185 to 330 billion riyals, an increase of 78%, while the 15th goal of the Ministry of Environment and Water and Agriculture includes raising the coverage of sanitation services to the population ratio of 60 to 65% the increase does not exceed 5%.

    Shahrani pointed to confirmations of the Minister of Finance about the program and that there is no intention by the country to impose taxes of any kind on the citizen, and newcomer income tax is still just an idea under study, pointing that at the same time in the second strategic goal of the ministry is to raise non oil imports value of 163 to 530 billion riyals in 2020, it is known that the most important non rentier income of any country in the world is the taxes and fees, as the document included the program three initiatives of the Ministry of Finance, one of the preparation and application of the unified income tax, and the other to the preparation and application of income tax on residents and the third is the initiative of applying reconstruction tax.
    The specialist in economic legislation Tariq Al Sugair states in  "the economy" that one of the most important challenges of the process of Vision 2030, is the efficiency of implementation and control to achieve the goal of national transformation, which consists of 178 strategic goals that constitutes the summary of the government initiatives, and are spotted in the achievement of these goals through the 371 indicators to measure performance.

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