Iran’s Minister of Economy says the government intends to prevent tax evasion to ensure stable revenues for the country.
Referring to “the transparency of economic information and the increase of new taxpayers and the prevention of tax evasion”, Ehsan Khandouzi said that the government is trying to have stable revenues in the budget, ISNA reported on Monday.
President Ebrahim Raisi submitted the national budget bill for the next Iranian calendar year (March 2024-March 2025) to the Majlis (parliament) last week.
The share of tax revenues in the proposed budget bill is twice that of oil and gas revenues.
Iran’s more reliance on tax revenues happens as the intensified US-led sanctions on Tehran have targeted the country’s oil industry as a major source of revenues for the Islamic Republic.
Head of Iran’s Plan and Budget Organization Davoud Manzour has stressed that the government is not going to exert more pressure on the taxpayers and rather plans to prevent tax evasion and ensure tax justice.