Budget review committee OKs €2.795b withdrawal from NDF

TEHRAN - Iranian parliament’s ad hoc budget review committee has passed a bill to allow withdrawing €2.795 billion from the National Development Fund (NDF) for compensating the next calendar year’s budget deficits.

Iran budget deficit expected to top $13b next year

TEHRAN - Director of the Supreme Audit Court of Iran (SAC) said the country’s budget deficit for the next Iranian calendar year (March 2020-March 2021) is expected to reach about 550 trillion rials (over $13 billion).

‘Govt. could offset budget deficit by selling assets, stocks’

TEHRAN – Deputy head of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA) says the government can compensate the probable deficits in the next year’s development budget by selling its stocks and assets.

No budget deficit in current year: PBO head

TEHRAN – Head of Iran’s Planning and Budget Organization (PBO) said despite the decrease in the country’s oil revenues the country won’t face any budget deficit in the current calendar year (ends on March 19, 2020).

Govt.’s 4 strategies to compensate for budget deficit approved

TEHRAN- Iranian government’s four suggested strategies to compensate for budget deficit were approved during a session of Supreme Council of Economic Coordination presided by President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday, Fars news agency reported.

By Haniyeh Sadat Jafariyeh

1398 budget bill, (non)-oil revenues?

The budget bill for the next Iranian calendar year 1398 (starting on March 21, 2019) was presented to the parliament on December 6 while Iran’s economy, previously expected to boom, is experiencing the toughest conditions under the draconian U.S. sanctions. The upcoming year is supposedly an economic predicament for Iranians to endure and for the government to program and handle.

By Haniyeh Sadat Jafariyeh

Taming the runaway forex market

When rial finished its four-month decline sliding to a record low of 60,000 rials against the dollar on Monday from 43,000 rials in early January, the administration eventually made the long-waited serious decision to curb the rampant foreign exchange market by unifying the official and open market exchange rates.

By Haniyeh Sadat Jafariyeh

Economy in a nutshell: key points, future plans

At the threshold of a new year, some of major economic indices of the ending year and the major plans for the upcoming one will be reviewed here.

Budget deficit impeding disaster reduction efforts: official

TEHRAN – Shortage of budget has been impeding many projects needed to implement disaster reduction plans, especially during earthquakes, YJC quoted Ahmad Sadeqi, director of the Tehran Disaster Mitigation and Management Organization, as saying.

By Maryam Qarehgozlou

Put up with earthquakes and do the spadework

TEHRAN — The earthquakes across Iran over the past 40 days, particularly the most recent one in the capital Tehran, have fueled widespread, well-founded fear amongst people alike.

Budget deficit could do irreparable damage to Lake Urmia

TEHRAN — Officials in charge of Lake Urmia restoration program have said the government has not allocated budget to the project in the next Iranian calendar year (March 2017-March 2018) and this could do irreparable damage to the lake’s restoration program.