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Can tax avoidance be discouraged and voluntary tax compliance encouraged by delivering reciprocal public goods for which the taxpayers are entitled to but the cash-strapped governments are largely unable to provide? The answer is yes as demonstrated by the experience of European social democracies.
While the country is stuck with a low tax-to-GDP ratio despite various reforms and administrative measures there is a growing view now that to collect more taxes the government needs to ensure that the revenue is prudently spent on public welfare and infrastructure upgrading for the wheels of the economy to run efficiently.
Development practitioner Shakeel Ahmed Shah rightly points out that if the government is broadening the tax base and levying more taxes, the taxpayers expect some visible improvement in services delivered. He says “it is hard to claim that citizen’s experience of interaction with government service providers has changed at all.” Mr Shah observes that the gove
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The Speaker National Assembly invited the policy experts and practitioners to critically analyze the National Assembly Committee’s proposed agricultural growth strategy
Islamabad, February 18, 2021 (PPI-OT): The Speaker National Assembly invited the policy experts and practitioners to critically analyze the NA Committee’s proposed agricultural growth strategy, policy levers, reform instruments and implementation plan, and propose corrective measures where necessary. The experts while appreciating the proposed strategy unanimously stated that a Pro-Small Farmers policy lens was crucial to accelerating sustained agricultural growth rate and rural poverty alleviation. The meeting presided by Convener of the Sub-Committee MNA Shandana Gulzar Khan was held at Parliament House, Islamabad.
FBR serves 1.4m notices on violators
These include individuals and firms that did not submit annual statements
The FBR said that those who are not complying would be pursued diligently until compliance is achieved. PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD:
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has served 1.4 million tax notices to individuals and companies that either did not submit annual statement of income and expenditures or undertook business transactions without paying due taxes.
It is one of the largest enforcement exercises by the tax machinery in years that is struggling to improve its image, efficacy and stagnant revenues.
The tax notices have been served in three categories, non-filers of annual income tax returns, those who filed returns and concealed incomes and property seller and purchasers, a senior FBR official told The Express Tribune on Saturday. It has also issued tax notices to nearly 63,000 companies.