Iran Budget Bill 2018-19

The heads of three branches of power (executive, judiciary, legislative) approved on Saturday the four main outlines of an initiative to improve budgeting and help reduce the country’s…

Iran’s budget deficit came in bigger than expected in the first five months of the current fiscal year (March 21-Aug. 22) to reach 369.1 trillion rials ($2.49 billion), latest data released by…

Social welfare, employment and production, and education are the top three expenditures in the government’s budget for the upcoming fiscal year (starting March 21), said the head of Planning and…

The Iranian Parliament has approved the government's proposal to increase departure tax in the next Iranian year (starting March 21), albeit with the exception of pilgrimage. 

Members of the Iranian Parliament agreed on a 12.17-quadrillion-rial ($269 billion) budget for the next Iranian year on Thursday with 148 votes in favor, 38 against and 3 abstentions. 

Lawmakers on Tuesday passed a number of measures related to the banking system and the National Development Fund of Iran while reviewing articles of the fiscal 2018-19 budget.

Iranian lawmakers set the ceiling on Sunday for government, ministries, universities and municipalities' bond issuance as part of the next year’s (March 2018-19) budget at an aggregate of 1.78…

Members of parliament in their latest open session on Saturday reviewed the details of the fiscal 2018-19 budget law and approved measures concerning finance, government resources and bonds,…

The Subsidy Reform Plan and the pricing of energy carriers topped the agenda of Majlis Joint Commission in its sessions to revise the rejected budget bill for the next fiscal (March 2018-19) on…

The Majlis on Sunday disapproved the outlines of the proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year (March 2018-19). 

A total of 120 lawmakers voted against while 83 were in favor of…

The Iranian Parliament begins to discuss the Majlis Joint Commission’s version of the fiscal 2018-19 budget on Sunday.

The lawmakers will first approve the general outline of the budget…

The government is counting on earning 1,287 trillion rials (about $30 billion) in tax revenues in the next fiscal year (March 2018-19) as per the budget bill submitted to parliament back in…

Majlis Joint Commission approved the outlines of the budget bill for the next fiscal year (March 2018-19) on Sunday and will weigh the details of the bill in the coming weeks, the spokesman of…

There has barely been any reaction by ordinary citizens to budget bills proposed by governments to the parliaments over the years until recently.

Only a few economic elites, market…

President Hassan Rouhani has submitted his administration’s budget for the fiscal 2018-19 to the parliament.

As always, the budget is a mix of short- and long-term goals, with the latter…

The government has a record of running budget deficits.

Latest statistics by the Central Bank of Iran show the budget deficit over the first seven months of the current fiscal year (…

The significant rise in departure tax incorporated by President Hassan Rouhani and his budgetary cadre in the next budget bill for the fiscal March 2018-19 has patently infuriated the Iranian…

The head of Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture, as one of the leading private sector figures, has added his voice to the chorus of people criticizing the proposal to…

The dramatic increase in the departure tax proposed by the government in the budget bill for the next fiscal year (starting March 21, 2018) has low chances of approval by the parliament,…

As per the budget bill of the coming fiscal year (March 2018-19), the government will allocate 180 trillion rials ($4.28 billion) out of the Subsidy Reform Plan’s resources for production sector…

The total projected income of eight Iranian state-owned banks, plus the Central Bank of Iran, has been put at 845.2 trillion rials ($20.09 billion) in the budget bill submitted to the parliament…

The government's financial support for the foreign and intelligence ministries is essential to maintain and improve the country's political stability and security as well as foster economic…

President Hassan Rouhani presented the budget bill for the fiscal 2018-19 to the parliament on Sunday, a document he called a blueprint for generating employment, eliminating poverty and…

The research arm of the Iranian Parliament expects the government’s general revenues to stand at 3.25 quadrillion rials ($77.47 billion) in the next fiscal year (March 2018-19).

This…

President Hassan Rouhani is scheduled to submit the budget bill for the upcoming fiscal year (March 2018-19) to the parliament on Sunday after the Cabinet approved it on Wednesday, the…