The Ministry of Economy: Government tax revenues are not spent on foreign projects
Amid increasing economic pressures in Iran and widespread protests against the Islamic Republic’s financial aid to Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance claimed that government tax revenues are not spent on foreign projects.
Mohammad Hadi Sobhanian, head of the Tax Affairs Organization and Deputy Minister of Economy, on Monday, February 25, in an interview with ILNA news agency, dismissed reports about spending Iran’s tax revenues abroad and said, ‘There is absolutely no discussion of tax payments for foreign projects, and it is not the case that people pay taxes and these taxes are spent abroad.’
Sobhanian also announced the implementation of a new plan called ‘tax marking,’ which allows citizens to decide in which sectors their taxes should be spent, but the option to select foreign projects does not exist in this plan.
These statements are made in a situation where, in recent days, revelations about the continued financial aid of the Islamic Republic to Hezbollah in Lebanon have provoked strong public reactions.