THIS is apropos Suhail Ahmed Shaikh’s letter ‘Tax rebate for teachers’ (May 22). The FBR may consider granting the rebate as proposed by the writer without incurring any loss.

The alternative to earning much more revenue is by bringing the Cambridge/CIE schoolteachers in the tax net wherein most of the cases of the earning is at least one million rupees a month from the classes they conduct after school hours.

If it may be difficult for the FBR to find such cases, but some teachers of Pakistan Studies and Islamiat in Karachi have earned big money in just two days by conducting ‘special sessions’ a week prior to final examinations very recently.

Hence the FBR can find big taxpayers by relieving the true and genuine teachers and scholars.

M. I. Farooqi

Karachi

Published in Dawn, May 28th, 2015

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