LAHORE: Zero percent withholding tax is sole and one point agenda of Pakistani traders and Tax Amnesty Scheme is a fraud and a favor to turn black money of corrupt bureaucrats and politicians into white.
This was stated by All Pakistan Anjuman-e-Tajran Lahore Faisalabad and Islamabad office bearers President Khalid Pervaiz during a press conference at the Lahore Press Club. He said that the traders never demanded any tax amnesty scheme.
“The scheme is not for small and big traders as trades do not have such big capital like Rs 25 millon. This scheme is for those who want to purchase PIA and mills,” he said. He added that the government had not taken the real representative of traders’ community on board.
He said that the government manipulated withholding discussions with the fake traders’ representative staging drama.
Islamabad chapter president Kashif Chaudhary said that voluntary tax package of amnesty scheme was not traders demand. He said that the scheme is introduced for bureaucrats and people sitting in assemblies.
Faisalabad Anjuman-e-Tajran president Shahid Razaq Sipra said that the government made fake traders representative and got no consent of genuine leadership of traders.
He said that Muhammad Ali Mian and MNA Pervaize Malik introduce fake traders set up and gave the impression that the traders were taken on board. “WHT elimination was our demand which is not met,” he said adding that a traders’ convention will be held on January 14 and on January 20 a further course of action will be announced.
Meanwhile, All Pakistan Anjuman-e-Tajran general secretary Razaq Bubber said that Punjab Revenue Authority is harassing small traders while only sparing big traders which should be stopped.
