Shapur Zol Aktaf
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Well, if you compare the price to Europe or even Turkey, then our income should be the same .... the payment of a normal worker in Iran is less than $0.45 in an hour .....
We are buying car for 220 percent more expensive than average European .... we have to buy all electronic device 2-3 times more expensive than an average European or Turkish or Arab in our region while there is no warranty and support for Iranians consumers due the sanctions ....
In short, our income is in Rial but our expense is in $ with additional fee which our government add to it ...
People like you couldn't live in this condition, and so they already left Iran just like you ...
- Iran is wasting 50-100 billion dollars subsidies a year on energy and fuel subsidies only, lets say 75 billion dollars a year on stupid non-targeted subsidies (financing cheap fuel for smugglers and neighbouring countries from Iranian taxpayers such as yourself, financing energy and fuel usage of rich kids in Tehran).
- These subsidies have encouraged and increased waste, over consumption, air pollution, smuggling.
- This has to end immediately and fuel and energy should be taxed immediately.
- Fuel price like benzine should be adjusted to about 90 cents a litre, that would mean a price about 30 cents below that of Turkey and 30 cent above that of Iraq. This way we save money which would be wasted (subsidies and smuggling). Diesel should become 80 cents (usd) a litre, about 30 cents below that of turkey. The prices which i mention are tax included. Other option is to set up a regional price policy with the neighbouring countries for fuel prices to prevent smuggling.
- Any violent protest towards these reforms should be answered and supressed by state forces.
- Minimum wages should be increased at the same time to make life easier, especially for the lower income class.
- Automobile industry should not be protected, its protection should be losened to increase competition and to decrease car prices due to incleasement of competition in the market.
- In Netherlands the government collects about 25 billion dollars on energy and fuel tax (opposite of subsidizing). Iran has 5 times more population than netherlands, but uses per capita about 2 times less than Netherlands. That would mean roughly another 60 billion dollars is wasted by not collecting/taxing energy/fuel sector.
- Roughly 140 billion dollars a year is wasted, not saved/collected. We're talking about the potential of taxing and removing subsidies from energy and fuel sector only!
- 50% of the The tax collected on energy and fuel and 50% of the money that is saved from cutting off energy and fuel subsidies (in total 70 billion dollars a year) should be spent/redistributed on updating energy infrastructure, general infrastructure, education, science and health sector, and direct cash payment to only 25% of the society who have the lowest income/wages.
- The other 70 billion dollars should should be partly saved, partly spent on debts and other government programs.
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