The President of Pakistan Economy Watch Dr Ghulam Murtaza Mughal has said
that the Federal Board of Revenue is the biggest hurdle in expansion in
tax net. He said that the dissatisfaction is at its highest point in
the Pakistani masses and international organizations on FBR and it is
alarming situation for Pakistan.
He said that the FBR has been failed many times in management,
discipline and transparency and now the people are ready to give
bribery but they are not agree to pay tax.
In a statement issued here on Sunday, he said that the tax paying
people know that their tax would not be used for development of the
country; rather it would be used for the luxuries of the officers of
FBR and the rulers.
He said that the honest tax payer is frightened from the officials
of the FBR and he wastes all his time to make plans how he can save
himself from them, it is a reason that our economy is not moving on the
way of prosperity.
Dr Ghulam Murtaza said that the endless corruption is the fame of
FBR. He said that the advances of the corruption of FBR are presented
in the Public Accounts Committee from the Auditor General of Pakistan.
According to the reports of auditor general the FBR wasted billions of
rupees every year but higher authorities always keep mum over the
issue.
He said that the fake claims of collection of record tax and
achieving the targets of FBR are the question mark on the credibility
of this institute. He said that laws about the tax would only benefit
Pakistan when the confidence of masses would be restored on the
institutions responsible for collection of tax. SANA
