Federal Board
of Revenue (FBR) has started an extensive drive to boost the filing of Income
Tax returns by reaching out to large public and private sector organisations
and companies, facilitating their employees with taxable income to file their
tax returns.
A team of FBR's Facilitation and
Taxpayers Education (FATE) Wing led by Member FATE, FBR, Ms Nausheen Javaid
Amjad and assisted by Chief FATE Ms. Tehmina Aamer visited the offices of large
organisations headquartered in Islamabad and sought their help and support in
motivating their employees to file their tax returns.
FBR has compiled a list of over 50
large corporations, financial institutions and companies to be approached by
FBR within the next few days to explain to them how a majority of their
employees with taxable income are failing to fulfill a national obligation by
not filing their Income Tax returns.
As part of this initiative launched
today, FBR's team led by Member FATE met the Managing Director of Oil and Gas
Development Company Limited (OGDCL) and presidents of Zarai Taraqiati Bank
Limited (ZTBL) and Askari Bank Limited to apprise them of a keen desire within
FBR to work with these organisations to provide them with all possible
assistance and facilitation to convert their non-filing employees into filers.
Ms Nausheen Javaid Amjad said FBR
was cognizant of the fact that large organisations and companies were ably
fulfilling their responsibility of reporting salary paid and taxes withheld
from their employees. However, there was a need for their top management now to
step in and support FBR by emphasizing the importance of filing tax return to
their employees and assuring necessary facilitation in this regard.
She said FBR is willing to conduct
in-house facilitative training sessions and workshops in e-filing for their
officers and staff of these organisations to help them file their Income Tax
returns without any hassle. She said the filing of returns could result in
potential advantages to the employees and save them from paying higher
differential rate of taxes introduced for the filers and non-filers.
The MD of OGDCL and presidents of
ZTBL and Askari Bank respectively appreciated the FBR's efforts for broadening
of tax base and welcomed its technical support and facilitation in e-filing for
their employees. They assured their full cooperation in ensuring maximum
compliance and filing of tax returns by their employees.
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