In collaboration with Payame Noor University and Iranian Society of History

Document Type : pajoheshi

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Payame Noor. Tehran.Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, department of history education farhangian university p.o.box 14665-889, tehran,iran.

3 associate professor of history in jiroft university. Jiroft. Iran.

10.30473/lhst.2026.72711.2944

Abstract

A B S T R A C T
During the reign of Reza Shah, organizing tax affairs was one of the main concerns of the government. In this regard, the Fars province, with its vast geographical area and as one of the important agricultural hubs of the country, was the focus of attention. The importance of this issue was such that the Fars Provincial Finance Department established a branch of the Fars Provincial Finance Department and Southern Ports. Given that the southern region played an important role in the political and social developments of the country since the Qajar period, the revenues from taxes in this region, especially its customs duties, played an important role in the income sources of the Qajar and Pahlavi kings. The present article, which is organized with a descriptive-analytical approach and historical method and relies on documents and other sources, seeks to analyze the tax challenges of the Fars province and ports in the early years of Reza Shah's reign and its impact on people's lives. The findings show that at the beginning of Reza Shah's era, just like the Qajar era, due to the lack of a powerful central government, Fars and its ports were divided and divided, and tax abuses by government officials, along with extortion by local tax collectors and influential people, had presented people with a serious problem. Despite the repeal of tax laws in the parliament and the abolition of agricultural and guild taxes, the aforementioned taxes were still collected from the people. The weakness of the central government in supervising the performance of tax officials contributed to this chaotic situation.

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