Ali Faridzad
Abstract
The law of Targeted Subsidies on energy carriers has been implemented for seven years. There are still many uncertainties about the effectiveness of this law, which has raised many questions for energy economists. One of the main questions in this regard is the estimation of embodied energy subsidy for ...
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The law of Targeted Subsidies on energy carriers has been implemented for seven years. There are still many uncertainties about the effectiveness of this law, which has raised many questions for energy economists. One of the main questions in this regard is the estimation of embodied energy subsidy for net export of goods and services at the level of the economic sectors that has not been taken into consideration by Iranian researchers. To answer this fundamental question, we measure the net exports of embodied energy subsidy for goods and services with using the price-gap approach and applying Iranian Input-Output table for year 2011. In addition, for assuming the differences of embodied energy in unit of Iran’s imported and exported commodities, it is measured according to the ratio of the world average energy intensity to Iran’s energy intensity. The results of this study show that while some sectors of the economy such as basic metals are faced net exports of embodied energy, the net value of the embodied energy subsidy in the content of exporting goods and services is not consistent with the net export of embodied energy, and policy makers cannot employ pricing policies, such as increasing the price of energy carriers, to manage and control the implicit energy subsidy. Accordingly, the government has recommended adjusting the prices of energy carriers in line with international prices as well as improving technology by creating an efficient financing market.
Ali Faridzad; Soheila Parvin; Ali Asghar Banoue
Volume 16, Issue 47 , July 2011, , Pages 105-127
Abstract
Reforming Iran’s tax system is one of the most important issues due to the role of government’s expenditures and uncertainty in oil income. Therefore the modern value-added tax system is recognized as an approach by which tax transparency and tax structure reform can be enabled. However, ...
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Reforming Iran’s tax system is one of the most important issues due to the role of government’s expenditures and uncertainty in oil income. Therefore the modern value-added tax system is recognized as an approach by which tax transparency and tax structure reform can be enabled. However, increase in prices is an impact of applying this system. In this paper we have taken the advantage of symmetric product-by-product input-output table with basic prices to study the impacts of implementing value-added tax systems. With the help of IO-SAM software, this is the first time to set the Make and Use matrix on price basis of the year 1378. This table is the only table that can be used in analyzing price impacts caused by value-added tax system. The results illustrate; a 3-percent value added tax rate leads to increase in level of prices for about 1.5 percent, without consideration of any tax exemption. After exempting subject products of article 12 of value-added tax law, this index reaches 0.8 percent. Moreover, our examinations identify a 2.99 housing service price impact as the highest among the other 119 products’ in the economy. This rather high impact is generally rooted in its being not interchangeable in the as well as its overweighting demand.
