It is legal to require taxpayers to use store terminals from the first of Mehr/Tax based on card reader information.

According to the economic group of Fars news agency, after the tax affairs organization announced that the information related to card reader transactions is one of the criteria for calculating business tax in 1400, there was a wave of positive and negative reactions in the country.

Due to the lack of information and the existence of ambiguities in this field, some guilds criticized the government and even protests were formed in some parts of the country. Intended for the public, the range of protests was limited and positive reactions were reported from experts and people.

Surveys show that in the meantime, some members of the parliament have raised criticisms regarding the change in the tax collection method, while the officials of the Tax Affairs Organization have repeatedly pointed out that the recent action is one of the first steps in changing the tax procedure from a traditional approach to a It has been a smart approach that has come into force according to the budget law of 1400 and also the law of store terminals and taxpayer system approved in 1998.

* A Member of Parliament: The tax of producers and ordinary trades should be assessed in the lowest possible way

Recently, Ruhollah Hazratpour, the representative of the people of Urmia in the Shura Council, said in this regard: “The government should find out the super tax debtors and market traders and let go of the collar of small trades; “The Parliament believes that the taxes of producers and ordinary trades should be assessed in the lowest possible way and the main target of this plan should be those who have accumulated hundreds and thousands of billions of money.”

He continued: “The total amount of small business taxes in the country is around 10 thousand billion tomans, while the tax evasion of less than a thousand tax debtors is estimated at more than 30 thousand billion tomans.”

Therefore, his report in this regard needs to point out that although the need to deal with large-scale tax evasions is a clear and definite matter whose necessity is undeniable, but this contradicts with creating transparency and completing the information base of the tax organization in other areas, including It does not have trades and businesses.

Previously, Daoud Manzoor, the head of the country’s tax affairs organization, while announcing the identification of the operation of 3 steel companies that have engaged in large-scale sham transactions and committed serious tax evasions, announced the demand for the principal and deferred tax offenses in the amount of 325 billion tomans, which shows that The tax affairs organization is determined to deal with tax evasion.

The interesting point of the story is that this member of parliament has extended his opinion to the whole parliament, while the tax affairs organization has started collecting taxes in a new way based on the resolution of the parliament.

On the other hand, naturally, using the information of card readers to calculate business taxes is an important step towards creating transparency and getting closer to tax justice, because the salaries of an employee and worker are taxed before payment, and the taxes of these people are fully and completely by the government. is received

* What is the reason for the position of some representatives against the implementation of the law?

In an interview with Fars, Mehdi Mohadi Baknazar, head of the Education, Research and Planning Center of the Tax Administration, criticized the comments of some members of the parliament regarding the criticism of the tax administration, and said: In the last 2 months, extensive pressure has been placed on the Tax Administration to clarify the trade tax. It is strange that the clarification made for the tax affairs organization had negative consequences.

He continued: According to the law, the tax affairs organization must provide conditions for every legal and natural person subject to tax payment, which also happened in the tax affairs organization with legal approval. In fact, the tax affairs organization is obliged to implement the law and the criticism of some representatives to the implementation of the approved law is questionable.

According to Movahdi Baknazar, according to clause “M” of note 12 of the budget law of 1400, the sales account or that connected to the sales machine is the basis of tax calculation, and as a result, the implementation of this legal article is the mandatory duty of the tax affairs organization, and there is no problem with this. Does not exist.

He added: Parliamentarians should be defenders and supervisors of the law and not expect the tax affairs organization to violate the law and not implement the law approved by them.

The head of the Center for Education, Research and Planning of the Tax Organization while referring to the receipt of taxes from the super debtors of the bank reminded: For example, a person with an input transaction of 6 thousand billion tomans has paid about 10 million tomans in 2018 and about 300 million tomans in 2019. As a result, the tax affairs organization has gone to the top tax evaders.

Mohadi Bek Nazar explained the tax protection provided to guilds and said: The tax affairs organization does not collect tax from the income, in fact, the income of the guilds is multiplied by an activity coefficient, and as a result, the amount of taxable income is determined.

* Satna, Paya and Shatab pos transactions were not included in the tax collection criteria

He added: In order to be more consistent, only Shopreki card reader transactions have been set as criteria, and Satna, Paya and Shatab transactions are not criteria, and tax was not considered for these cases. It was reduced by half with guilds.

According to the head of the Education, Research and Planning Center of the Tax Organization, the maximum withholding tax has been considered 3 times last year.

He further announced: Last year, only 17 thousand billion tomans of tax was collected from 3.5 million taxpayers, in other words, only 5% of the total 305 thousand billion tomans of the country’s tax income was related to trade unions, and the calculations show that On average, each taxpayer has paid about 5 million tomans in taxes.

* The withholding tax of 87% of taxpayers is less than 5 million tomans

Mowhedi Begherd pointed to the issue of tax justice and said: We also believe that taxes should not be collected from the weak, according to this statement, this year more than one million taxpayers will not pay taxes, and more than 87% of corporate taxpayers will receive withholding taxes. was less than 5 million tomans; On the other hand, only 25% of total withholding tax revenue went to the top 1%.

He also said about the unveiling of the tax system: The unveiling of the taxpayer system has been realized internally, and from the beginning of Mehr, selected legal and natural persons are required to do all their purchases and sales through electronic invoices.

According to Fars report, having an efficient tax system is one of the characteristics of developed countries. Because access to a strong database leads to correct provincial taxation, so that justice is taken into account in taxation, government revenues increase, and by levying heavy taxes from intermediary activities, capital is directed towards production.

According to experts, Iran’s tax system suffers from problems such as lack of access to accurate income information of taxpayers, lack of fair taxation, lack of correct tax orientations, and similar issues. In order to solve this issue, many measures have been taken in the country, but unfortunately, they have not had a favorable result. In this regard, setting up Modian system and connecting store terminals (which will probably be done next week) to this system is on the agenda of the government.

Experts hope that this system can lead to the creation of a strong database of taxpayers’ information and provide the basis for fair taxation in the country. The

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