Rent of Government Premises-LBP 113 Billion Annually
The foregoing factors have resulted in pushing the annual rent of public premises from roughly LBP 6.8 billion in 1992 to roughly LBP 73 billion in 2002 and further to LBP 80 billion in 2005. In 2009, the annual rental expenses stood at LBP 84 billion and jumped to LBP 113 billion in 2012. Hence, the rental increase between 1992 and 2012 would then be LBP 106.2 billion, equivalent to 1562%, a percentage that could rise even higher in the future.
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Changes in the rents of public premises between 1992 and 2012 (Amounts in LBP) |
Table 1 |
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Administration |
Rent in 1992 |
Rent in 2012 |
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Audit Court |
800,000 |
1.083 billion |
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Civil Service Council |
735,000 |
485,000,000 |
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Central Inspection |
9,115,000 |
1.089 billion |
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Iftaa Bureaus |
1,887,000 |
90,000,000 |
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Sunni Religious Courts |
3,000,000 |
510,000,000 |
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Higher Islamic Shia’a Council |
1,000,000 |
110,000,000 |
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Jaafarite Iftaa |
700,000 |
47,000,000 |
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Jaafarite Religious Courts |
520,000 |
598,000,000 |
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Mashyakhat Al-Aql of the Druze Sect |
200,000 |
8,000,000 |
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Druze Religious Courts |
120,000 |
142,000,000 |
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Public Disciplinary Council |
1,100,000 |
21,000,000 |
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Central Administration of Statistics |
500,000 |
525,000,000 |
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General Directorate of State Security |
75,000,000 |
550,000,000 |
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Ministry of Justice- Civil Courts |
293,750,000 |
608,000,000 |
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants |
4.053.565 billion |
37.747 billion |
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Ministry of Interior and Municipalities – Administrative Bureaus |
250,000 |
52,000,000 |
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Internal Security Forces |
450,000 |
1.305 billion |
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General Security |
75,000,000 |
955,000,000 |
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Directorate General for Personal Affairs |
5,000,000 |
60,000,000 |
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Directorate General for Palestinian Refugee Affairs and other departments under the Ministry of Interior and Municipalities |
185,000 |
807,000,000 |
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Ministry of Finance |
50,000,000 |
2.927 billion |
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Lebanese Customs |
25,000,000 |
1.3 billion |
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General Directorate for Real Estate Affairs |
1,500,000 |
1.502 billion |
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Cadastral Department |
2,300,000 |
- |
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Ministry of Housing and Cooperatives |
6,000,000 |
20,000,000 |
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Ministry of National Defense |
11,200,000 |
1.8 billion |
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Ministry of Education and Higher Educatio |
50,000,000 |
25.4 billion |
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Ministry of Youth and Sports |
1,000,000 |
265,000,000 |
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Ministry of Social Affairs |
350,000 |
220,000,000 |
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Ministry of Public Health |
9,600,000 |
1.112 billion |
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Ministry of Labor |
7,000,000 |
758,000,000 |
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Ministry of Public Works and Transport |
8,500,000 |
1.780 billion |
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Ministry of Agriculture |
127,000 |
1.5 billion |
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Ministry of Economy and Trade |
5,000,000 |
703,000,000 |
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Ministry of Telecommunications |
25,000,000 |
290,000,000 |
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Ministry of Water and Electric Resources |
5,000,000 |
340,000,000 |
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Ministry of Tourism |
50,000 |
19,000,000 |
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Ministry of Industry and Oil |
5,000,000 |
330,000,000 |
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Prime Ministerial Bureaux |
- |
450,000,000 |
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Alawite Islamic Council |
Established after 1992 |
45,000,000 |
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Directorate General of the Druze Religious Council |
- |
247,100,000 |
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Ministry of State for Administrative Reform |
Established after 1992 |
1.088 billion |
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Constitutional Council |
Established after 1992 |
335,000,000 |
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Ministry of Information |
- |
50,000,000 |
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Ministry of Culture |
Established after 1992 |
600,000,000 |
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Ministry of Environment |
Established after 1992 |
670,000,000 |
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Ministry of the Displaced |
Established after 1992 |
730,000,000 |
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Miscellaneous rents |
1.6 billion |
22.8 billion |
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Total |
6.8 billion |
113 billion |
Source: Public Budget Law in 1992 and Public Budget Draft Law in 2012
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