Stamp crisis remains and expands

“Al -Akhbar” wrote: The crisis of “scarcity of financial stamps” has not ended in government departments, and with it the crises of the auditors continue to delay, waste of time, money, and queues that increase in length. Although the Ministry of Finance adopts alternative solutions such as “the marking” or “paying the stamp fee in the money transfer offices”, and attaching the transaction to a receipt proves the payment of the required amount known as “Form, p. 14”, the suffering of the citizens has not reached the end of it yet.

Because of the pressure on the tag machines, and the lack of distribution of the Ministry of Finance is enough of them to all departments, the transactions are lined up in long lines that sometimes hinder the work of the departments. For example, a single mark machine was placed in the financial circle in Baabda, and in the same building there are a number of departments that deal daily with reviewers forced to pay fees instead of services such as the educational zone, where school statements are received and believed. The same is repeated in the main center of the Ministry of Education, as it placed one mark machine on the ground floor, while the ministry is reviewing hundreds daily.
In a related context, a number of employees continue to exploit the crisis, as they pay the price of stamps in the money transfer offices through the form «p. 14» of the Ministry of Finance, and they retain receipts in their offices. Then they sell it to the auditors at a higher price than its real price. For example, the paid receipt is sold for 120 thousand pounds, at 400 thousand, an increase of 3.5 times over its real price.
Also, the refusal of a number of employees to use ordinary stamps, obliges auditors to purchase the receipts paid for the offices of these employees. They argue with the abundance of stamps and their inability to glue them on the treatment sheet. The scarcity of the stamps of large groups leads to the collection of citizens stamps from smaller groups, but at the same value, which increases their number and makes dealing with them on official papers more difficult.