ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to remove non-filers from the tax laws and ban their 15 types of activities, the government has got the support of big industrialists to get more revenue from existing filers and non-compliant citizens. .
Looking at income tax returns data, the FBR revealed that 94 percent of taxpayers in Pakistan’s middle income group are compliant, while the compliance rate among the richest one percent of Pakistanis is 29 percent. The government feels that there is a need to tighten the envelope around tax return filers.
The country’s major industrialists, corporate sector representatives and fast-moving consumer goods companies have backed the government’s new tax plan. The plan includes full control of filers and punishment of non-filers. In a meeting with industrialists and businessmen, Chairman FBR Rashid Langriyal told the participants that now the government is going to do away with the category of non-filers, it will stop the use of checks for withdrawing cash above the specified limit.
