KARACHI: Tax practitioners have advised the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to examine withholding statements and extract information of persons not paying taxes and not filing their annual returns.
The members of Karachi Tax Bar Association (KTBA) in their pre-budget 2021/2022 seminar urged the FBR for mining of its database to identify new taxpayers & those not fully discharging their liabilities
FBR should extract information from withholding statements, details of government supplies and maintain a database of above third party information, according to a presentation made by Haider Patel, former president, KTBA.
He further suggested that relevant organizations, departments, institutions including utility companies, banks, NADRA and information obtained related to offshore transactions should submit prescribed information on quarterly basis to the FBR.
The FBR has been further advised effective enforcement for compliance of filing of Return of Income under section 114 of Income Tax Ordinance, 2001.
Reference: PkRevenue