<p dir="ltr"><span>TEHRAN TIMES- The minister made the remarks in a meeting of the cabinet and Majlis Economic Committee members on Monday, IRIB reported.<br> Dejpasand said the mentioned plan consists of 32 significant programs and 97 percent of it has been already realized.<br> To minimize the effects of sanctions on the country’s economy, Iran is adopting some new economic approaches and the main important one is to reduce reliance on the oil revenues.<br> To materialize this objective, the country has put strengthening domestic production, boosting non-oil exports specially to the neighbor countries, and collecting taxes more systematically on top of its economic policies.<br> Earlier this month, Dejpasand said that reducing the current year’s budget dependency on oil exports is the most important economic objective in the country; and his ministry is seriously following up defined tax policies to this end.<br> The proposed 17.03 quadrillion rials ($405 billion) budget bill for this Iranian year (started on March 21) has envisaged 1.53 quadrillion rials (about $36.5 billion) of tax income.<br> The minister has also stressed that an efficient tax system should be a priority in the government’s policy making.<br> A non-oil budget requires other stable income sources.<br> In a message on the occasion of the National Day of Tax (July 7), Dejpasand stressed the necessity of planning for using stable non-oil income.<br> He wrote the sanctions should be considered an opportunity to reform the budget structure and to take the advantage of tax potential.<br> <br class="t-last-br"> </span></p>