The Mystery of State Exemption from Payment of Court Costs

The decree of state exemption from the payment of court costs in Iranian statute law has been accompanied with the abundant up and down. Although such an exemption had been specified in the civil procedural code, 1939, it has not been indicated in the civil procedural code of the public and revolutionary courts in civil affairs, 2000. In spite of passing the judicial precedent by General Board of the Supreme Court and prescription of the duty of the government in payment of court costs, the existence of some special laws indicating the exemption of some institutions and organizations from payment of these costs and insertion of uncertain words in the Budget Act, 2011 specifying the exemption of “Lawsuits on Preservation of Public Treasury’ from the payment of the said costs, has been increased to these ambiguities, the subject which is required the adoption of the strict position by legislator.