online economy; Mahdi Safai – Fatemeh Mohajerani has recently announced the President’s order to provide sustainable resources with the aim of increasing the validity of the electronic invoice. Meanwhile, one of the key goals of the 7th Development Plan is to achieve 8% economic growth; A goal whose realization requires the use of various tools, especially significant financial resources.
However, considering the current conditions of Iran’s economy and the existing limitations in the field of financing, providing the necessary resources to achieve such growth is associated with serious challenges.
According to Economy Online, financing for any economy requires things like economic freedom, the absence of hidden subsidies, removing high-income tithes from the list of subsidy recipients, increasing government tax revenues from non-productive activities, printing money, and reducing government expenses.
Therefore, disruptive methods such as printing money to finance the 8% growth target are at odds. Therefore, the government should adopt policies to pave the way for economic growth in addition to supporting the people, especially the lower income deciles. One of the actions of the government can be to reduce costs by reforming the budget and shrinking the government. This reduces non-value-added costs and provides more resources for productive activities.
Another method is to remove hidden energy subsidies such as gasoline, electricity, water and gas subsidies, which both increases economic justice and improves the consumption pattern, and frees up much more resources than the figure paid to the subsidy recipients.
Intermediation activities such as buying and selling property and cars also do not help the growth of the economy. One of the ways to finance is to increase tax revenues from non-productive activities. This will change the economic culture and make people invest their capital in production and productive activities.
