200,000 Online Payment Gateways Hit for Tax Evasion

The domestic payment and settlement network, Shaparak, has instructed payment facilitator companies to suspend 200,000 online gateways from the nationwide network because of nonpayment of taxes. 
Operators of these gateways apparently failed to register their business transactions with the Iranian National Tax Administration and did not file tax returns. 
According to Peyvast magazine, the total number of gateways on the Shaparak blacklist is estimated at 400,000. The blackout has created problems for businesses owning the payment gateways.