ISLAMABAD, Nov 12: Giving final touches to the controversial tax amnesty schemes, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Monday asked his cabinet ministers for finance and law to give their feedback before presenting these schemes to the parliament.

Ashraf asked the minister for Finance Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh and Law Minister Farooq H. Naek to look into the schemes and come up with immediate suggestions on how to deal with the related  issues,  a source privy to the meeting quoted the prime minister.

The ministers, according to the source may give their feedback latest by Tuesday.

The schemes are expected to be submitted to the cabinet meeting on Wednesday for approval, a legal requirement before producing to the parliament for approval. If the cabinet clears the schemes, it will then be produced in the parliament subsequently.

Originally, the schemes were designed to whiten black money to be effective from October 2012 through presidential ordinances, but had been delayed owing to pressure from opposition leaders and those who were religiously paying their taxes.

Opposition leader in the National Assembly, Chaudhry Nasar Ali Khan criticized the government’s move to whiten the black money through amenesty schemes, which he said was cheating with the honest taxpayers. “Government wants to whiten the money raised through corruption in the last four and half years”, Khan said while commenting on the government’s intention to produce the schemes in the parliament.

The opposition leader alleged that FBR chairman Ali Arshad Hakeem was a personal friend of the president. “FBR chairman now in return wants to oblige him and his co-party workers in the shape of the schemes”, Chaudhry Nisar said.

The appointment of FBR chairman had already been challenged in the Supreme Court of Pakistan by one of the senior officer of the Inland Revenue Servic (IRS). The IRS group deals with over 80 percent of the revenue collection of the FBR.

“We will oppose the schemes in the parliament”, the opposition leader told reporters outside the parliament building here on Monday.

NADRA has already given a data of over 2 million people with all details and addresses who are potential taxpayers but did not pay taxes. “FBR is unwilling to initiate a crackdown on these people and instead looking for easy ways to give undue favours to elite people”, a tax official said.

Amnesty schemes, according to the tax officials were introduced in those circumstances where there was no data regarding tax evaders.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Additional Information Secretary Dr Israr Shah has demanded Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to constitute an independent judicial commission to save the “Poor Pakistan”.

In his letter Israr Shah requested the Chief Justice that those families, who capitalized the bad financial practices of banks and got their huge loans written off and are now leading a lavish life, should be declared ineligible for upcoming elections.Shah mentioned in his letter that present parliamentary democracy was hostage in the hands of ruling elite. This class has plundered the national exchequer in a manner that now they can afford to even ‘buy’ an election and cling to power as ever.

“Present parliament has failed to pass an “Accountability Bill” for own ulterior motives. The government and opposition are playing a ‘blame game’ for the last four and half years,” the letter said, adding that the sole ray of hope for the “Poor Pakistan” is the Supreme Court of Pakistan.