Government to help reopen closure mines
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Iran International Stone Exhibition: I think the government can bring them back to work with the tax breaks and the government law granting such mines. The most important benefit is that workers return to work.
According to Iran's International Stone Exhibition, Hossein Pourhassani, chairman of the board of directors of Iran's International Stone Exhibition, said in an exclusive interview with the Iranian Stone News Agency: Currently, the Iranian stone industry is in recession, the recession has started for the past few years and until today. As a result of this recession, about 50 percent of Iran's rock mines are closed and about 20 percent are part-time and very few workers.
He added: "It is necessary for our government officials to carefully and patiently consult with experienced experts why this has happened to the Iranian mining industry and why these mines are currently closed or semi-active.
He continued: "Manufacturing and production support cannot be achieved through lectures and slogans. It has to come up and raise sleeves to solve problems."
"At the moment I am in touch with many of these miners and partly familiar with their concerns," he said. The problem for many is the lack of liquidity and lack of sales of minerals. The market is stagnant and they cannot sell their ores, and unfortunately, the authorities have not taken the necessary steps to launch the market.
"Many of the costs, such as government salaries and value added tax, come in cash from the miners, and many miners can't really afford to pay them," he said.
He said government officials should keep in mind that a small percentage of the existing ore mines in Iran have very good stone and that they are sold well and at a high price, but the other mines are really having trouble selling and providing cash and cannot afford the costs. Cover themselves.
The chairman of the board of directors of the International Stone Exhibition of Iran continued: "I think the government can bring them back to work with the tax breaks and the government payrolls that these mines are considering." The most important benefit is that workers return to work.
He stressed that the government could promise the mines to exempt them from paying state salaries and VAT if they reopened and employed a certain number of workers for two or more years.
He said: "We are producers, and the manufacturer has to pay for workers' rights, benefits and insurance, as well as the high costs of machinery, depending on the number of workers employed in their production unit; Mines cannot afford expenses such as VAT and government salaries.
