TEHRAN, Iran, Aug. 31
Trend:
The deputy head of the Iranian National Tax Administration announced the country’s planned tax income has been completely collected in the first 5 months of the current Iranian year (started on March 21).
In the first 5 months of the current Iranian year, we had 62 percent growth in tax revenues compared to last year and we have achieved 100 percent of our forecasts for this period, Mohammad Masihi told Trend.
He said that our forecast was to have $25 billion of tax revenue during this period, and all this amount has been achieved.
The deputy head of the Iranian National Tax Administration said that focusing on combating tax evasion along with accepting taxpayer self-declaration and focusing on review the important cases has been among the reasons for the increase in tax revenue.
Masihi also noted that monitoring suspicious banking transactions and dealing with dummy corporations have been the main plans to combat tax evasion.
He went on to explain the impact of the Covid-19 on the country's tax revenues.
"We collect taxes from profits, and basically we do not collect taxes if a company has made a loss,” he said adding that during the Covid19, the number of loss frims increased.15:5