THE FBR has failed to collect taxes judiciously. In 66 years, it has only managed to collect taxes from only five per cent of the population. Ironically, the BR has many well-paid employees.

It made tall claims of sending out ‘notices’ to six million tax offenders while at the same time it offered ‘amnesty schemes’ to illegal car owners.

Here it was reported that cars were still in transit in Japan and were being cleared by the FBR.

Ironically, the FBR cannot find tax offenders in the country.

We read about the detection of ‘flying or fake invoices’, which were only detected after billions were paid back to cheaters as sales tax return when they showed through fake invoices that they had paid taxes on imports.

We have been hearing about the famous FBR’s ‘SRO culture’ that is designed to confuse everyone.

The FBR failed to arrest any of the parliamentarians when they clearly showed through their nomination papers that they were on a government job but paid no taxes.

This showed that the FBR is incapable of collecting income tax from anyone.

Since tax collection through income tax is only five per cent of the population, the government should consider making Pakistan a tax-free country like Dubai and Switzerland.

In a tax-free Pakistan, there would be no income tax, and thus no need of the FBR. The tax-free status will help attract ultinational organisations to reduce red-tapism and tax collection dealing with the local government.

Shahryar Khan Baseer
Peshawar