ISLAMABAD: FBR’s acting Chairman Faiz Ahmed on Monday said that so far there had been about 2.3 million people in the tax net and another seven lakh people, who own three or more houses and keeping costly vehicles but not paying tax, are being brought into the tax net.
He told the sub-committee of the Public Accounts Committee that the FBR had got the data of these seven lakh people. The FBR chief said that first a media campaign would be launched and then an operation would start against these people, and they would be given no relaxation. He said even arrears of the previous years would be recovered from them.
The sub-committee of the PAC expressed its strong anger over disappearance of record from the FBR relating to Audit objections concerning to dealings of billions of rupees. Convener of the sub-committee Riaz Pirzada took a serious notice of the disclosures and sought a report within 15 days from the FBR.
Pirzada said the reforms in the FBR had failed while record on which there were audit objections had been burnt. He questioned as to how it happened. He said farmers were being whipped to get taxes from them and they were forced to pay Rs2 lakh per trolley while the government was unable to get Rs5 lakh taxes daily from the MQM marriage halls in Karachi.
Pirzada asked the FBR to bring an improvement in its tax collection system and attempts must be made to generate more revenue so as to avoid the clutches of the World Bank and IMF.
He said that the audit officials told them that records of the FBR where there were audit objections of billions of rupees has been misplaced and the Committee was facing difficulties in going through it. He questioned as to why there was a delay in recovery of taxes from the MCB while another Rs120 billion of the FBR are held up due to the pending cases in courts.
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He told the sub-committee of the Public Accounts Committee that the FBR had got the data of these seven lakh people. The FBR chief said that first a media campaign would be launched and then an operation would start against these people, and they would be given no relaxation. He said even arrears of the previous years would be recovered from them.
The sub-committee of the PAC expressed its strong anger over disappearance of record from the FBR relating to Audit objections concerning to dealings of billions of rupees. Convener of the sub-committee Riaz Pirzada took a serious notice of the disclosures and sought a report within 15 days from the FBR.
Pirzada said the reforms in the FBR had failed while record on which there were audit objections had been burnt. He questioned as to how it happened. He said farmers were being whipped to get taxes from them and they were forced to pay Rs2 lakh per trolley while the government was unable to get Rs5 lakh taxes daily from the MQM marriage halls in Karachi.
Pirzada asked the FBR to bring an improvement in its tax collection system and attempts must be made to generate more revenue so as to avoid the clutches of the World Bank and IMF.
He said that the audit officials told them that records of the FBR where there were audit objections of billions of rupees has been misplaced and the Committee was facing difficulties in going through it. He questioned as to why there was a delay in recovery of taxes from the MCB while another Rs120 billion of the FBR are held up due to the pending cases in courts.
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