LAHORE: Provincial Minister for Finance Dr Aisha Ghaus Pasha said all the tax collecting agencies, including Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA), will focus on the increase tax net instead of tax percentage in the coming financial year.
She stated this while presiding over a meeting of the Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) Advisory Committee in the committee room of the Punjab Assembly on Wednesday.
We need a change of culture for increasing tax collection through awareness schemes, Aisha stressed. Improvement in health institutions, facilities in educational institutions, increment in educational scholarships, availability of pure water, improvement of transport, law and order and decrease in duration of loadshedding will encourage the public to pay more taxes.
The minister said she will discourage unlawful act by the tax collecting agencies and empower the PRA appellate tribunal to provide justice to the parties. The Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) always showed its performance and cooperated with the taxpayers, she remarked.
Member Operations Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) Javaid Ahmed, Member Policies Dr Uzma Akram, Additional Commissioner Shehzad Mehmood Gondal, Special Secretary Finance Said Ullah Dogar, formerChief Economist of Pakistan Dr Parvaiz Tahir and Executive Director LUMS Entrepreneur Khurram Zafar participated in the meeting.
