Legal Deputy of the Ministry of Guidance: Separate the accounts of high-income artists from the majority of artists

According to Fars News Agency, Seyed Mohammad Hashemi, Deputy Minister of Legal, Parliamentary and Provincial Affairs of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, said: “Many artists are in the lower or middle class in terms of livelihood and tax returns for this class in next year’s budget will put a lot of pressure on them.” Enters.

He added: “Transparency in the tax system and the need to collect taxes from artists who earn billions is a happy event and it is certainly a fair thing to be done, but the account of the few artists who earn billions should be separated from the artistic community.” We are witnessing serious livelihood problems in various strata of artists, including writers, theater and visual arts, etc., which have increased in the last two years due to the outbreak of coronary heart disease, which requires more support from these people. There are about 10,000 people working in the cinema body, most of whom have very different financial and living conditions from famous figures with billions in income.

The Legal Deputy for Parliamentary and Provincial Affairs of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance continued: In the 1401 budget bill submitted to the Islamic Consultative Assembly by the government, artists have been exempted from paying direct taxes in accordance with Article 139 (l). As the government had proposed in the budget bill, the esteemed members of the Islamic Consultative Assembly agreed to continue the tax exemption for the general public of artists who have an unfavorable or normal economic situation. However, it often happens in the art community that some artists have a good income for a few months but no income in other months of the year, and therefore do not experience good financial and living conditions during the year, which is supported by The society is the duty of the government and the parliament, and the issue of tax exemption for this group is part of the umbrella of law protection of the culture and art society of the country.

Referring to the direct loss of people from the shrinking basket of cultural goods in recent years, Hashemi continued: “Today, when we face many economic challenges, cultural goods are the first thing that is removed from the household consumption basket.” And adding a tax on the price of cultural goods can increase the cost of these products and make the cultural basket of families smaller.

According to this news, according to the budget law approved by the Islamic Consultative Assembly, artists have been exempted from paying taxes in recent years. The removal of this exemption has caused protests in various artistic and cultural fields of the country.

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