Tehran, Iran, Sept.12
Trend:
Iran's stock exchange can be of help, in providing financing to the country's private sector, said Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs Farhad Dejpasand.
"The stock exchange can be a market to provide liquidity and solve the financial problems of businessmen," said Dejpasand, Trend reports citing IRNA.
"The liquidity in stock exchange can be helpful for the production sector, there has been a special focus on this policy that so far has been successful," he added.
The official emphasized that the government efforts are aimed at creating necessary grounds to assign its assets and banks to the private sector that can lead to various trade in stock exchange.
"Considering that the investment in the stock market is preferred by business owners, so preserving stock exchange hardly creates interruptions in the markets.
Dejpasand indicated that the country's economic growth in the last Iranian year (started March 21, 2018) was not in acceptable state and the instruments such as tax should be used to create more revenues in the current Iranian year (started March 21, 2019).
"Current efforts is to confront individuals who commits tax evasion legally and there have been good achievements in this regard," he said.