Impacts of the Global Financial Crisis on the Iranian Tax Revenues

This paper focuses on impacts of the global crisis on some macro structure variables of the Iranian economy. To do the task, the trends of changes in GDP, tax revenues, governmental expenditures, international trade, and the capital market have been analyzed through techniques of VAR and variance analysis. Then, the impacts of the crisis on the Iranian tax revenues have been accounted for in terms of different tax categories. The findings obtained indicate that keeping in mind the descending trends of the above-mentioned indices in 2008; it is predictable that in 2009, too, the crisis will have some more severe impacts on the Iranian economy.