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carrying out the same duties previously performed by Major-General Kargin.
Major-General Zorriri, Chief of the Iransovtrans, is occupied with that
organisation only and is not commander of Soviet troops in Tehran.
Appendix.
Extract from report dated the 30^A January, 1945, by the Financial Counsellor
of His Majesty's Embassy.
Public Finance.
2. I he figures of revenue and expenditure for the first nine months of the
financial year 1944-45 (beginning on the 21st March 1944—the Persian year
13-3 A.H.) are now available. They compare as follows with those for the
corresponding period in the previous vear
1943-U. 19U-A5.
Ordinary budget-
Revenue ...
Expenditure
Surplus
Commercial budget—
Revenue ...
Expenditure
Deficit
Net deficit .
{Million rials.)
3,287 2,972
2,841
446
1,537
2,820
1,283
837
Ihe estimates for the whole year 1944—45 are as follows :—
^ . Million rials.
Ordinary budget—
Revenue ...
Expenditure
2,716
256
2,640
3115
475
219
Deficit
Commercial budget—
Revenue ...
Expenditure
Surplus
3,958
4,569
611
6,367
5,755
612 (Overall surplus
470,391 rials)
b ® “° ted .,i 1 . ere tor , reference that the budgetary deficit for the vear
1943-44 was l,0u2 million rials.
-p to ordiliar y budget, the situation was less favourable than appears
from the figures m the second paragraph. For one thing, the expenditure does not
mciude the salaries of Government servants for the ninth month (some 200 million
nals) The budget, although submitted to the Parliament (Mailis) last June, has
not yet been approved, and the expenditure is being authorised in the meantime
by periodical votes on account, the last (like some of the others) having been
passed too late for the punctual payment of salaries. More important, however
is the fact that receipts from income tax, which were estimated at 885 million rials
ior the year, are likely to fall far short of this figure. Although the rates are con-
higher than m 1943-44, receipts in Tehran have been no more than
84 million rials in the first nine months of the year, compared with 273 million in
the same period of the preceding year, and this figure has only been reached because
In 6 'f,r me . f Pal<1 V 1 * Nattonal Bank has amounted to 140 million as against
41 million last year. Similarly, receipts (including income tax) from the provinces
months of i'^^T S ° 3 ° milHOn “ againSt 500 mi ” ion in the first
* The activities covered by the Commercial budget fall into two chief parts- (a) purchas,
factories and^properties Under ^the 9 latt^ P L eCe ;?° od ^ ^ Ministration of the GovAmem
lactones ana Properties. Under the latter heading outgoings during the first nine months o
the year have been f-LO million rials as against receipts of 376 million.