Tax evading entities should pay for the quarantine
When we see pictures of workers and employees traveling on BRT buses and metro in Tehran and big cities, the first thing that comes to our mind is that people are giving their lives for bread.
While our vast Iran has institutions that do not pay taxes, and withhold tens of thousands of billions of wealth from the people affected by Corona. This sad story is stuck in the throats of Iranian people. No one can summon the heads of Mustafafan Foundation, Astan Quds, Executive Headquarters, Shahid Foundation, Panzdeh Khordad Foundation, Relief Committee and other institutions and ask the institutions that have refused to pay a single rial of tax for the past forty years because of rent and advice, how are they doing today? Have they become the owners of tens of thousands of billions of Tomans?
Is the wealth of these foundations personal and belonging to private investment companies or is it a wealth of Iranian property and for the people of Iran?
Government employees and teachers must pay taxes from their meager salaries, and roads, airports, ports, and refineries are built from these taxes so that economic supercartels like these institutions and foundations can easily take advantage of the country’s development infrastructure for their reproduction and wealth accumulation. .
The average productivity of employees, workers and teachers who pay regular taxes in this country does not even reach 10% of the country’s infrastructure facilities, but on the other hand, the shadowy and tax-evading institutions use more than 90% of the country’s industrial, commercial and economic infrastructures. They receive!
Now, during the spread of the Corona virus, 70% of people need bread at night if they do not do their daily work. Despite the sanctions and the sharp reduction in oil revenue, the government cannot pay the cost of quarantine for the poor or below the poverty line.
Multiplied organizations that have not paid a single Rial in taxes in the last four decades and have benefited from all kinds of rents by using sacred titles, do not care about the condition of the lower middle class!!
If the people are the owners of this country, why is no one exposed to the painful and tax-evading institutions?
If we have 60 million people in need of subsidies in this country, according to the words of the president, that means we can put the equivalent of 15 million households in a complete monthly quarantine by paying two million per month and a total of thirty thousand billion tomans, so that people are forced to commute daily for a bite of bread. don’t be
You must remember that at the beginning of last year, the Rouhani government had to give about thirty-five thousand billion tomans from the National Development Fund to the losers of credit institutions and loan funds, because the owners of Nour-Cashmi and very respectable! These institutions looted people’s money!!
These days, our country is surrounded by the corona epidemic, and according to doctors and health system executives, if a two-month strict quarantine is applied in the country, it will be possible to eradicate the corona virus.
We have more than ten wealthy and multi-billionaire foundations or trillionaires who can hand over 6000 billion each to make up for 40 years of tax evasion, so that the government can easily pay the 6000 billion toman cost of the two-month quarantine of the people. In this case, Corona will disappear. and peace returns to Iranian society.
Astan Quds, the executive headquarters, the Mustafafan Foundation, the Panzdeh Khordad Foundation, and the Shahido Aqla and Sharia Foundation are in debt, and now they have to pay the expenses of 60 million people who are entitled to subsidies.
As the famous proverb says, they have eaten from the nation’s pocket for 40 years once in Sha’ban and have escaped from paying taxes. They should pay for the nation for two months.
By God, if they do that, it will not go anywhere.
Ali Nazari, editor of the independent newspaper
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