ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has published a tax directory of Pakistan’s elected representatives for the year of 2018.
While sharing details about the tax paid by the parliamentarians, Prime Minister Imran Khan’s finance adviser, Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh said that the elected provincial representatives paid Rs340 million in taxes in the same year. Some 90 senators and 311 MNAs paid a total of Rs800 million in taxes, he added.
He said that the FBR is “striving for transparency in the tax system”, adding that the tax and audit systems were being automated and computerised.
“We wish to make the FBR’s tax system transparent,” he said, announcing that the institution had made two major decisions. “We are not bringing the tax audit under the control of any officer; it should not be so that a single officer selects the people of their choice in the audit.
The adviser stressed, however, that the salaried class as well as the beneficiaries of the tax amnesty scheme were not included in the audit. A 1.7% audit of sales tax would also be carried out, he said.
