Is card-to-card considered a seller’s tax?

On the other hand, 5% of taxpayers, who are among the highest-income groups, pay about 50% of business taxes; This means moving towards tax justice. The head of the tax affairs organization presented a report on the approaches, measures and results of the activities of the tax affairs organization in the 13th government in the Friday prayer sermons.

Focusing on the informal sector of the economy and identifying 2.2 million new taxpayers

Dawood Manzoor stated: In this period, our focus is mainly on the informal and non-transparent sector of the economy, those who do not pay their taxes despite earning high incomes. In this regard, the first step we took last year was to organize the money transfer system and make the money transfer transparent to the beneficiaries. We have connected payment gateways and POS to tax files almost completely and more than 7.2 million payment devices have been connected to tax files. He added: About 3 million payment devices canceled and disabled their devices.

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Also, currently there are about 1.4 million undecided payment devices that will be deactivated by the central bank in the next month. The head of the Tax Affairs Organization also said: So now we know who has what amount of sales from their payment portals. Based on this, last year we identified about 1,200,000 new taxpayers by regularizing payment devices, and of course, through other methods, including checking and analyzing the information of economic operators based on information from third parties, we also identified another million taxpayers. We identified Manzoor continued: So, the identification of 2.2 million new taxpayers was the most important step that was taken last year to combat tax evasion, and this year about 4 million declarations of natural persons, businesses, guilds and businesses were received, which is more than last year. It has increased from one million and 200 thousand cases. He emphasized: As much as we collect taxes from those who did not pay taxes until now, we can put the official sectors of the economy under tax protection. As an example, during the current year, to support production in the budget law with the government’s proposal, the tax rate of production units has been reduced from 25 to 20 percent. Our direction is to reduce this rate as much as possible, because as much as the production sector can reinvest its resources, it will lead to capital formation, economic prosperity and more production. We put on the agenda the forgiveness of tax crimes for the damaged and needy production units. Our approach in the tax department is to support the production sector and the official sector and put pressure on the informal and non-transparent sector.

Separation of personal and commercial accounts

The head of the Tax Affairs Organization also said: Another action we have on the agenda is the separation of personal and business accounts. When we organized the poses, unfortunately, some economic activists made people suffer; Because they forced people to transfer the desired amount from card to card or account to account instead of using POS. With the separation of personal and commercial accounts, we deal with commercial accounts as a pose, which will indicate the individual’s economic activity. In this classification, whose regulation is to be published by the central bank in the next month, those who use their personal accounts for business more than a certain number of times and amounts per month, are identified as commercial or suspected commercial accounts, and we We also tax the accounts. Manzoor continued: The result of this action was that we were able to collect 2.5 times the tax from the guilds last year while observing tax justice. Also, out of 4 million taxpayers who have filed tax returns, 1.6 million tax returns are zero and 800,000 tax returns are under 5 million tomans. On the other hand, 5% of taxpayers, who are among the high-income professions such as doctors, dentists, gold dealers, car showrooms, etc., pay about 50% of business taxes. This movement means tax justice and not taxing low income earners and receiving fair tax from high income earners.

Details of the halving of the import tax on account of importers

In addition, the legal and technical deputy of the Tax Affairs Organization announced: The Ministry of Economy has reduced the 4% tax on account to 2% to help the liquidity of importers. According to Shada report, Saeed Totunchi in a conversation with Iran’s Economic and Finance News Network (Shada), referring to Article 163 of the Direct Taxes Law, stated: According to this article, the Tax Administration is allowed to collect taxes from some taxpayers on account and in At the end of the tax period, finalize the tax declaration by receiving it. He added: Accordingly, in the regulations that were compiled, it was decided that the importers should pay 4% of the excise tax at the customs and in the next year when they pay the tax, this 4% will be considered as the excise tax and the rest will be calculated and final. to be The legal and technical deputy of the Tax Administration stated that some tax payers were exempted from paying this tax due to the system relationship established between the Tax Administration and Customs, but a wide range of importers From the point of view of the tax system, they were not among the well-off, so they paid this tax on account. Totunchi stated: Due to the increase in the global prices of goods and also the correction of the calculated exchange rate, in order for the Ministry of Economy to help importers’ liquidity, the import tax was reduced from 4% to 2%, which reduced the amount of tax paid by half. Finds.

Only 6 million tomans tax on “gold sellers” of the country!

The statistics of the Tax Affairs Organization show that the tax declared by the jewelry industry activists was only about 6 million tomans for each gold shop unit last year! The statistics of the Tax Affairs Organization show that the number of 6,358 units active in this trade in the whole country have paid taxes amounting to 40 billion tomans. This means that, on average, each trade unit declared only 6 million Tomans in taxes last year. This is despite the fact that in 2019, the amount of tax declared by this trade amounted to 26 billion Tomans. Based on the declarations expressed by the activists of the country’s gold shop guild, the declared tax of each gold shop unit in 2019 was only 3 million tomans. However, the tax authority’s diagnostic figure from gold dealers all over the country in 2019 amounted to 285 billion tomans, which was more than 10 times the figure expressed by the activists of this guild, so that the figure received by the tax organization from each trade unit on average amounted to It was 33 million tomans.

Source: Iran newspaper