Tehran, Iran – Iranian Authorities are Rolling Out an Electronic Coupon Scheme in Recognition of the direct economics under sanctions, but they are also hiking taxes across the board to cover Budget deficits.
As The Busy Shopping and Travel Season of Nowruz, The Persian New YearApproaches, The Government of Centrist President Masoud Peeshkian you have revived the Coupons Scheme for At Least a Few More Months, This Time Online.
The First Use of Coupons in Iran Dates Back To World War II When The Country Faced Dir Economic Conditions and Famine Under British and Soviet Occupation, which sur in 1946 After Five Years.
But Coupons are Mostly Remembered for Their Widespraad Use in the Aftermat of the 1979 Revolution. Neighbouring Iraq Invaded Iran With Support from Global and Regional Powers To Counter the New Theocratic Iranian Establishment, and an eight-year war Squeezed The Population.
The Coupons
Starting This Week, Low-Incom and Middle-Class Iranians are Being Given Up To 5 Million Rials (Just Over $ 5) Per Person That Can Be used to Buy Limited Quantities of Food Like Red Meat, Chicken, Eggs, Milk, Cooking Oil, Rice and Sugar At Government Prices. About 60 Million People are choosing to use the credit.
People Can Buy Only 11 items from A List of Select Suppliers and Shops Across The Country, and The Credit Purchases Are Separate From Monthly Government Cash Handouts That Currently Amount to About $ 4.85 per person.
The Goal Is to Marginally Allevavate Short-Term Pressure On Families Who Have Been Watching Purchasing Power Dwindle For Years As A Result of Local Mismanagement and All-Ancompassing Western Sanctions.
The Government of Late President Ebrahim Raisi, which was in office from 2021 to 2024, implemented electronic coupons schemes twice, in 2023 and 2024, for short periods to ease pressure as well.
HisMmediate Predessor, President Hassan Rouhani, Also Publicly Considers Resorting To Coupons in the aftermath of the 2018 withdrawal of the United States states from Iran’s nuclear from the nuclear from with World Powers and Impaed Harsh Sanctions on The Country.
ON THE OTHER HAND, TAXING EVERYTHING
The Pezeshkian Administration, which Lost Two Key Members to A political dispute withliners Last Week, you have been trying to cut costs and increases Reveues to Grapple with a Budget Crunch.
The Government’s Approved Budget for the Iranian Calendar Year 1404, Which Starts on March 21, Shows Considering Increased Taxes and Costs of Services – In Many Cases Much Higher than Iran’s Current 35 Percent Inflation Rate.
Successive Iranian Governments Have Been Pushed to find new revenue sources, Including Through Tax Increases, to decree The Country’s Inex dependence on Oil Revenues, Which Have Been Hit by The “Maximum Pressure” Tactics by The Us.
The Pezeshkian Government Said This Month that it Pays for 73 Percent of its Current Expensses, Excluding Infrastructure Expenditures, Using Tax Reveues.
ACCORDING TO A FEBROURY REPORT BY IRAN’S PARLIAment Research Center, Total Government Tax Reveues are Expressed to Go Up 53 Perent in the Fiscal Year 1404 Compared with the Previous Year, The Highest Jump in a decade.
The Budget Forese to 73 percent arises in total government earnings from corporate income tax Compared with the year before and at 68 percent increased in income from Personal Incom Taxes.
The Research Arm of the Parliament Foresees at 36 Percent Rise Comparced with the Previous Year in Wealth and Property Taxes.
TAXES ON IMPORTS ARE TO GO UP 85 PERENT AS well -a significant part of the increase Linked with Government Revement Reveues from Imports of New Or Used Foreign Vehicles after A Years-Long Ban was lifted In 2022.
During the Holy Muslim Month of RamadanRestaurants and Hotels Need to pay for permit to be uble to operate While Making Sure no One Publicly Breaks their Fast By Eating, drinking or smoking, Something that is Considered a Crime Under Iran’s Islamic Laws.
TAXES ARE INCREASING MOUTHS AFTER IRAN RAISED THE AGE OF RETAMENT FOR MEN BY TWO YEARS TO 62 AND INCREASED THE YEARS OF SERVICE REQUIRED TO CUREIVE FULL PENSIONS FOR MEN TO 35 FROM 30. Pressure on the Government.
Amid Another Currency Freefall and A lingering energy crisisThe Embattled Government Has Also Been Accused by Hardline Lawmakers of Atentionally Devaluing the National Currency to Make Short-Term Gains.
Making Services More Expensive
Along With Boosted Taxes, The 1404 Budget Makes A Long List of Government Services offered to Iranian and Foreign Nationals Much Costly While Ramping Up Financial Penatorials for Offices.
Fees to Issue National Ids and Passports Are Up, and It Will Be More Costly To Register Vehicles and Motorcycles. Several Fees Linked With University and Technical and Vocational Exams are Expecta to Rise.
Specially with Nowruz Prompting Millions of Iranians to Travel This Month, Authorities are Expecting Much Higher Revenues from Traffic Specials Selus The Will Be hiked by Up to 30 Percent Until Early April.
Many Major Traffic offers had already seen their penalties triple about about Eight Months ago With Several Others, including Dangerous or Drunk Driving, Expected To Be Hi Hokeed Another 50 Percent Next Year.
Authorities Plan On Charging Iranians More for Trying To Leave The Country Too With Departure Levies Up by About 30 Perent. Repeated Departers Would Incur More Costs.
The State continues to impose Financial penalties on and open criminal case agaless pele bla are deemed to have violated Mandatory Hijab Laws. CAN BE FINED AND IMPOINDED FOR WEEKS if they are repeatedly reported for hijab offices.
The Iranian Government plans to make Services offered to million migrants and refugees across the country more expense with well, including costs of issuing or renewing travel and work permits.
Tehran Municipality Announced Lest Month that Costs of Services offered to Foreign Nationals Will Be 54 Perent Higher in The Next Iranian Year.
These price rises Will Mostly Impact MiGrants and Refugees from Neighbouring Afghanistan, WHOSE NUMBERS IN IRAN SWELLED In the Aftermat of the Taliban Takeover of the country after the us withdrew in 2021.
Iranian Authorities AckNowledGe at Least Six Million Afghans Live In Iran, A Country of About 90 Million People, But Sub Sign Estimates Are Several Million Higher.
