Rouhani urges collecting income tax, no discrimination

reporter 1222 — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 12:44:18 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Stating that collecting tax must be done with transparency, President Rouhani said, “In a transparent process, people must know what portions of their taxes are being spent on services and the country’s development.”

Speaking on Tuesday at the meeting of reviewing tax policies, President Hassan Rouhani said, “Promoting the culture of tax in people and their more interaction facilitates the process of income tax payment.”

He stressed protecting small businesses as very important and said, “We must act in a way that these enterprises are not put under tax pressure. It is also imperative to plan in a way that they do not evade paying income tax”

At the meeting in which Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance Farhad Dejpasand, and Head of the State Tax Administration Omid-Ali Parsa were taking part, President Rouhani said, “This will only be achieved through electronic taxation.”

The president said, “People’s satisfaction will be greater when everyone pays income taxes without discrimination and on their income.”

“The goal of the Tax Administration should be to fully enforce the law and reduce the interference of tax authorities, as well as calculating tax electronically by smart methods,” he said.

Rouhani said, “The fight against corruption should be pursued within the tax administration and we should attempt to reduce in-person visits through making processes smart.”

The president reiterated that all agencies should work closely with the country’s tax administration in order to make processes smart and ensure justice in tax payment.

At the beginning of the meeting, Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance and the Head of the State Tax Administration presented reports on the performance of the tax administration along with the challenges and opportunities in this field.

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Comprehensive plan underway to amend tax system: fin. min.

reporter 1222 — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 06:30:31 +0000

The minister made the remarks in a meeting of the cabinet and Majlis Economic Committee members on Monday, IRIB reported.

Dejpasand said the mentioned plan consists of 32 significant programs and 97 percent of it has been already realized.

To minimize the effects of sanctions on the country’s economy, Iran is adopting some new economic approaches and the main important one is to reduce reliance on the oil revenues.

To materialize this objective, the country has put strengthening domestic production, boosting non-oil exports specially to the neighbor countries, and collecting taxes more systematically on top of its economic policies.

Earlier this month, Dejpasand said that reducing the current year’s budget dependency on oil exports is the most important economic objective in the country; and his ministry is seriously following up defined tax policies to this end.

The proposed 17.03 quadrillion rials ($405 billion) budget bill for this Iranian year (started on March 21) has envisaged 1.53 quadrillion rials (about $36.5 billion) of tax income.

The minister has also stressed that an efficient tax system should be a priority in the government’s policy making.

A non-oil budget requires other stable income sources.

In a message on the occasion of the National Day of Tax (July 7), Dejpasand stressed the necessity of planning for using stable non-oil income.

He wrote the sanctions should be considered an opportunity to reform the budget structure and to take the advantage of tax potential.

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Rouhani urges collecting income tax, no discrimination

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Stating that collecting tax must be done with transparency, President Rouhani said, “In a transparent process, people must know what portions of their taxes are being spent on services and the country’s development.”

Comprehensive plan underway to amend tax system: fin. min.