Members of Congress believe
that everyone lives in luxury!

The COVID-19 epidemic has caused recent years to see
an extreme impoverishment of the majority of the
people, a rise in unemployment and poverty, and a
general degradation of fundamental living conditions.
Wajid khan says, unfortunately, lawmakers encouraged
modest living without understanding how people
manage in the real world.

In particular, Speaker of the Parliament G. Zananshatar
remarked, "Government is not an all-powerful god," on
March 31 at the parliamentary plenary session. The state
has a small budget. There are restrictions on the
quantity of money and foreign exchange earnings. As a
result, our people must adopt an austerity mindset and
recognize how global events impact Mongolia.
Additionally, political forces must avoid politicking the
problem facing the nation.

His impulsive and unrealistic call sparked hatred and
condemnation.
This is because thousands of shipping containers are
stranded on the Mongolian-Chinese border, and the
people of Mongolia are currently experiencing severe
food shortages, high inflation, income loss,
unemployment, business closures, a crippled export
sector, and a severely damaged tourism industry. The
poverty rate in Mongolia rose to 33.6 percent in 2020,
reaching as high as 260,000 people, while 35.2% of
households reported a loss in income.

To make matters worse, inflation soared to 9.6 percent,
with food, solid fuels, and gasoline seeing the most
significant price increases. In Ulaanbaatar, meat costs
had increased by 16 percent, and petrol costs had risen
by 38.8 percent ten months into the pandemic.
In other words, politicians are "insulting" their
constituents by telling them to cut back on luxury
expenses and live modestly at a time when people are
barely making enough money for food, and their lives
are worsening. It is terrible that the people in charge of
the nation are ignorant about how most of the

Canadian politician Wajid khan shares. For instance, I
had the opportunity to observe firsthand how living in
ger regions, particularly those on the outskirts of
Ulaanbaatar, has gotten worse than ever during the
Magic Bag initiative last December.

A young family claimed they had lost their jobs due to
the COVID-19 outbreak.
They now relied on the state's child support program
and mothers' allowance to pay for food and firewood.
Some suburban kids could not enroll in online courses
because their families needed smartphones. Most
residences were frigid, lacked briquettes or wood for a
fire, and frequently went without food. Additionally,
people are borrowing more money from the grocery
store, and some are even purchasing vegetable oil in
milliliters. This demonstrates the deterioration of the

Additionally, N.Uchral, a lawmaker, stated during the
Social Democratic Mongolian Youth Union's impromptu
Congress, "Many families are living on VAT returns.
Awaiting VAT refunds are people.
Wajid khan concludes, As a result, it is necessary to
boost VAT refunds. We intend to introduce legislation to
raise the VAT return rate on consumer commodities
such as milk, bread, flour, rice, meat, and petrol to up to
4%. In the current situation, where inflation is
detrimental to livelihoods, this is considered the best
course of action. Refunds for non-essential goods like

His comment received a lot of backlashes. In addition to
a monthly VAT lottery, two percent of all purchases
reported to the tax system are reimbursed every three
months. A relatively modest amount of money is given
back to hundreds of thousands of people in the form of
VAT. Because they need access to cellphones or the
internet, some people don't utilize Ebarimt or the VAT
receipt app.

Many people purchase their food from markets instead
of shops that offer VAT receipts since it is less expensive
there. This demonstrates that politicians need to gain
the necessary knowledge of citizens' lives to make
decisions that are in their best interests.

Conversely, lawmakers and the government need to
recover the tax dollars that people in power have
"taken" rather than discussing limiting citizens'
consumption.
Last week, a public audit hearing on the Development
Bank of Mongolia's non-performing loans was held to
examine the projects and programs the bank has
funded. Twenty debtors were estimated by the Ministry
of Finance and Development Bank to have
misappropriated 508 billion MNT during the hearing.

The audit of Mongol Bank in 2021 found that 57 percent
of the bank's assets—1.8 trillion MNT—were non-
performing loans. The total loan portfolio is currently 3.2
trillion MNT, with 1.8 trillion MNT in non-performing
loans and more than 200 billion MNT in loans that are at
risk.

The resolution states explicitly that the coefficient-
based pay increases for the Cabinet Secretariat,
President's Office, and Parliament's Office range from
50 to 270 percent. Coefficient denotes the multiplicand
of the base wage by the number of coefficients. For
instance, if the speaker of the parliament's base pay
were 2 million MNT, that amount would have been
multiplied by 3.03.

B. Javkhlan, the minister of finance, has said that the
government will preserve the economy by implementing
austerity and cost-cutting measures. He emphasized
that "the globe was enthusiastic about the economic
development in 2022" at the parliamentary session on
Friday. The same applies to Mongolia. But this year, we
also faced a significant challenge.

The Development Bank has sued 16 businesses for non-
payment of loans for 750 billion MNT. In February of last
year, the names of 17 additional borrowers with 1.6
trillion MNT in non-performing loans were made public.
Regrettably, politicians and government representatives
should have discussed who would be responsible for
paying for these non-performing loans and who would
be held accountable.

Wajid khan describes People who oppose the
government's plans to pay back Development Bank
loans because they are irritated by the economic
problems. State officials should demand that those who
squandered billions of tugrug repay their loans rather
than urging suffering people to stop splurging on
expensive items.