Iran Press/ Iran news: The lawmakers of Iran's parliament on Tuesday, 14 April open session of the parliament approved Article 49 of the value-added tax (VAT) bill.
According to the bill, one-ninth of the taxes and duties of Article 7 and paragraphs A and B of Article 28 of this law will be deposited in the treasury account of the whole country as a health tax at the same time as it is received by the Tax Affairs Organization.
The Treasury is required to deposit the amounts received each month into the account of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education at the end of the upcoming 15 months. Failure to allocate the said amount shall constitute an unauthorized seizure of public property.
100 percent of the resources received under this article, through the rows provided for this very purpose in the annual budget laws, are allocated to the prevention and full coverage of treatment of people living in villages and towns of 20,000 population or less than this and it is also applicable for the nomadic community within the referral system.
After achieving this goal, the rest of it would be dedicated to complete and provide hospital equipment and equipping the health centers while prioritizing the hospitals in underdeveloped areas, meeting the need of currency boards together with improving the insurance of incurable patients and people covered by supporting institutions outside villages and cities with more than 20,000 people.
Any payment of personnel expenses such as salaries and benefits, overtime, welfare benefits, bonuses, and extraordinarily mission, work, productivity, management, shift work, debts and the like and administrative expenses such as consumer and administrative items and provision of furniture and office appointments would be forbidden.
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