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Akhtar sees 1.4m people filing tax returns this year

The Newspaper's Staff Reporter Published November 9, 2017

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is eyeing 1.4 million income tax returns for the tax year 2017, Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Revenue Haroon Akhtar Khan said on Wednesday. He was speaking to the participants of the 107th National Management Course during their visit to the FBR House.

An official statement issued after the meeting said the special assistant described the state of the economy as “healthy and stable”, with most economic indicators showing positive growth trends.

Mr Akhtar said the country was well on its way to achieving 6 per cent GDP growth for this fiscal year as compared to 5.3pc economic expansion recorded last year.

Published in Dawn, November 9th, 2017

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Nov 09, 2017 05:52pm

Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Revenue Haroon Akhtar Khan, the population of Pakistan is 200 million. If you are expecting 1.4 million tax returns, this is no great success, in fact it is an utter failure. Suggestion : We have thousands of Paan Walaa shops. Licence them with the Health Department. Charge an annual licence fee, payable to the Health Department for a " Health Certificate ". This certificate has to be displayed at their shop. Once a certificate is issued, they should be in the Health Departments Data Base as well as the Tax Departments. Licences should be issued for every business trade, thus bringing them into the TAX NET.

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abdul jabbar

Nov 10, 2017 01:33am

"ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is eyeing 1.4 million income tax returns for the tax year 2017". A country of 20 million people and you are expecting just 1.4 million filer. what rest of the population is doing?

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Omar Elahi

Nov 10, 2017 05:32am

What can we do to increase this number. We need to start encouraging this culture as a group effort to help increase our revenue generation capabilities.

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