Let’s start a project that controls expenses in excess of revenue!

It has been four years since the President took office and six months since the Parliament and the Government’s establishment. No bill has been initiated to change the loopholes.

Initially, since the MPP had 65 seats in Parliament, the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) monitored civil society organizations’ income tax returns and their expenditure reports. The 2012 amendment, which was discussed by a subcommittee and amended to protect each other, raised the need for the IAAC to monitor but has remained in place.

However, a recent controversy at the parliamentary level is a bill that would change the current system. The deputy head of the Anti-Corruption Agency is nominated by the president and appointed by parliament to the deputy head of the IAAC.

In fact, according to a prominent member of parliament, there is a hidden struggle in the ruling party over who will hold the key to the tunnel, rather than the will to fight corruption.

In fact, as a political force that has declared its readiness to enter the fire and water for the sake of its country and won the election, the people can initiate the draft mentioned above the law that civil society organizations have longed for. Suppose the members of the majority group do not act. In that case, there will be no less than eight members of the opposition Democratic Party, and this provision can be initiated to be included in the Anti-Corruption Law. Unfortunately, no one moved.

But the wealth of politicians is increasing. Before becoming a Parliament member, a person who lived in a public building now lives in a house worth billions. “I had a construction company,” he said. As soon as the economy recovered, our construction company started operating profitably. ”

Mongolia’s economy has been in turmoil since August 2016 and deteriorated until it joined the International Monetary Fund (IMF) program, but the MP’s affiliate has been profitable. The IAAC does not have a legal mechanism to investigate all of this, even though it is suspected that it did not participate in public tenders when it came to power.

This year, the IAAC received and reviewed the 2019 income tax returns of civil servants, according to the agency, whose income has increased from $ 800 million to $ 3 billion in recent years.

The audit results, which were conducted in collaboration with the General Department of Taxation, did not specify whether the work was sincere and earned three billion souls or whether the income increased from other sources. It is not ruled out that it may be difficult to verify due to its limited legal capacity.

Civil society organizations did not sit idly by, and before the end of the previous parliament’s mandate, last spring, when a request to investigate three parliamentary members whose incomes had risen sharply was referred to a parliamentary ethics committee. Many people will remember that the sub-committee meeting by MP B.Bat-Erdene was postponed due to three prominent members not commenting, and the meeting was postponed due to a business trip abroad.

Suppose that most MPs own shares in companies and large companies, so their assets and incomes increase. But how do some of the officials who do not have a business, work for the government, and have a monthly salary ranging from one to two million MNT live more luxuriously than their business owners?

He drives an expensive car with several apartments and sends his children to high-paying schools. From what sources do you earn and spend more than your salary? This is inevitably the case for the 40,000 civil servants and senior government officials required to file income tax returns with the IAAC.

When expenditures cannot be controlled, the damage caused to the country by corruption is currently estimated at 11 trillion MNT, and Mongolia will not develop if it continues in such a deceptive system.

The current system, in which the IAAC monitors the expenditures of civil servants in addition to senior government officials to combat corruption and official misconduct, and the Parliamentary Subcommittee on Ethics, which deals with issues related to MPs’ income, All that is needed is the courage to change, initiate a bill and get it approved by Parliament.