Budget 2025

Jaber: The 2026 Budget Will Guarantee Financial Regularity and Support Social Spending

Finance Minister Yassine Jaber affirmed on Friday that the 2026 budget plan would include measures aimed at ensuring financial regularity while paving the way for increased spending in social sectors. He emphasized that this budget would highlight the government’s development strategies and priority reform objectives. Among the measures planned ...

Cabinet Approves 2025 Budget, Initiates Reforms

PM Nawaf Salam confirmed the 2025 budget’s approval and pledged reforms to ease its impact. Work on the 2026 budget is underway, and future Cabinet sessions will move to a new venue. Information Minister Paul Morcos highlighted Saudi Arabia’s reform-linked support for Lebanon and announced work on tax exemptions for war victims and new ISF ...

Ibrahim Kanaan Stresses the Need to Withdraw the 2025 Budget

The President of the Parliamentary Finance and Budget Committee, Ibrahim Kanaan, called on Wednesday for the withdrawal of the 2025 budget proposal. The parliamentarian, who has been reiterating this demand since October 2024, said that the budget’s figures no longer reflected reality, deeming them “fictional.” Kanaan also emphasized that ...

2025 Budget: A Looming Fiscal Crisis

With spending on the rise and revenues falling short of expectations, the 2025 budget proposal is now effectively obsolete. The government must act swiftly to withdraw it from Parliament, where it was submitted on time, to prevent a deepening crisis. Why is a crisis inevitable? The current draft budget relies on unrealistic revenue projections, ...