EghtesadOnline: The 70% increase in value added tax, the change in its calculation basis for imports and the rise in fuel prices for industries have inflated the fiscal 2022-23 budget, said the head of the Research Center of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture.

EghtesadOnline: The fiscal 2022-23 budget is riddled with problems and contradictions, as well as unrealistic figures, Mehdi Pazouki, an economic expert, says in an article for the Persian daily Ta’adol.

EghtesadOnline: With oil prices in freefall and the coronavirus spreading like wildfire, the government will get more and more worked up this year than the last, especially because of the fiscal burden imposed by sanctions and the decline in oil sales.