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Agar urges WB team to conduct Indo-Pak cross-border trade assessment study
Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry’s President Muhammad Haroon Agar has urged the World Bank Group on Trade and Transport...
Speed up revenue collection, Member Customs tells officials
KARACHI: Member Customs Nisar Muhammad Khan continued to convene meetings of the Customs officials on the second consecutive day at...
No new powers conferred to Tax Commissioners for audit: Dar
LAHORE: Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Tuesday made it clear that no new powers have been conferred to the...
37pc tax burden on imports to harm business activities: KCCI President
Amanullah Khan KARACHI: Commercial importers paying up to 37 percent incidence of taxes on raw materials are mostly out of...
Karachi International Container Terminal a facility par excellence
SOHAIL RAB KHAN KARACHI: The Karachi International Container Terminal (KICT), the country’s one of the leading container terminal operators, has...
Director TDAP assures jewelers to resolve their problems
Faiza Israr ISLAMABAD: The Director Trade Development Authority Pakistan (TDAP) said that our 90 percent exports were initially based on...
Duty collection of two collectorates not synchronised with import value
By Staff Reporter KARACHI: The performance of Model Customs Collectorate (MCC) PaCCS and MCC-Appraisement has raised several questions as the...
FBR figures out plan to achieve ambitious tax target
SM Haider ISLAMABAD: In order to broaden the tax base for securing $5.3 billion bailout package from the IMF, the...
Only Chairman FBR can access bank accounts: Dar
LAHORE: In order to meet tax targets and stabilise economy, the government will come up with better relief measures for...
FBR waives off penalties on outstanding tax dues
SM HAIDER ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has waived off whole amount of default, surcharge, and penalty on...
FBR bans visitors from its premises
SM HAIDER ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has banned entry of visitors into premises of Board’s headquarters to...
UK delegation calls on FBR Chairman
SM HAIDER ISLAMABAD: Member of the UK’s House of Lords, Lord Nazir Ahmed of Rotherham called on Chairman FBR Ansar...
Govt set to approve macroeconomic targets
SM HAIDER ISLAMABAD: The government is all set to get approval on macroeconomic targets by envisaging GDP growth at 4.4...
FBR collects Rs174 billion in May
SM HAIDER ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has collected Rs 174 billion in May 2013 against a collection of...
Customs achieves revenue target
SM HAIDER ISLAMABAD: In the wake of severe power outages and ongoing political transition on the political horizon of the...
Govt to allocate Rs 450 billion for PSDP
SM HAIDER ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to allocate Rs 450 billion for Public Sector Development Program (PSDP) in the...
FBR warns against fake web page
SM HAIDER ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) found that people are using a fake web page for undertaking...
Pakistan should ink more free trade agreements
SYED MOHAMMAD TAHIR LAHORE: In recent years, we have witnessed a spectacular rise of regional and bilateral trade agreements in...
Remittances can save rupee from further depreciation
SYED MOHAMMAD TAHIR LAHORE: The local currency rupee is continuously declining with the passage of time because Pakistan’s exports are...
EU asks for economic reforms
SM HAIDER ISLAMABAD: The European Union (EU) has said the newly elected government would take up office and economic reform,...
