Iran’s tax revenues over the first ten months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21, 2022 – January 20, 2023) has grown by 55% compared to figures from last year’s corresponding period, according to an official familiar with the matter.
Mojtaba Amiri, the head of the Iranian National Tax Administration’s Planning and Statistics Group, told IRNA that the Iranian government earned 3,887 trillion rials ($8.71 billion) from taxation in the ten-month period.
Income from tax on goods and services stood at 1,471 trillion rials ($3.29 billion) during the period to register a 46% year-on-year rise.
Direct taxes stood at over 2,417 trillion rials ($5.41 billion), up 60%.
Tax on legal entities stood at over 1,594 trillion rials ($3.57 billion), indicating a 78% rise.
Income tax grew 36% to 676 trillion rials ($1.51 billion) and capital tax rose 30% to 146 trillion ($327.35 million).
Davoud Manzour, the head of INTA recently said identification of new tax payers and stemming tax evasion account for 60% of rise in the government’s tax income.
On the remaining 40% he said: “part of the increase [in tax income] comes with rising commodity prices as vale added tax is an important form of taxation. The 9% VAT evidently increases in volume in line wit rising prices.”
Another aspect to rise in tax income, he added, is funded by manufacturing units’ exit from recession, which will increase value added generation.
Manzour went on to say that INTA came up with its own estimates about 350,000 companies as well as three million individuals who failed to submit their tax declarations this year.
Saying that the government pursues a policy of trusting taxpayers’ declarations, he added that only 5-10 percent of all declarations will be reviewed by the taxman.