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Govt to spend $34b on infrastructure in 4 years: Ishaq Dar
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Finance Senator Ishaq Dar has said that the government would spend $ 34 billion in the...
Senate’s committee summons FBR officials on April 10
ISLAMABAD: Senate’s Standing Committee on Finance and Revenue has summoned high-ups of Federal Board of Revenue on April 10. The...
People will hear good news on SROs soon: Khurram Dastgir
RAWALPINDI: Dastgir said that the Ministry of Commerce was in constant consultation with Federal Board of Revenue to seek an...
Revenue collection in March stands around Rs214b
ISLAMABAD: Updated data compiled by Federal Board of Revenue has revealed that it has provisionally collected over Rs 214 billion...
Customs Rules, 2001 amended: FBR relaxes licencing rules for warehouses
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue amended Customs Rules, 2001 through an SRO 202(I)/2014, relaxing customs licencing rules for persons/firms...
IMF dissatisfied with low tax-to-GDP ratio
ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has stressed the need for raising tax-to-GDP ratio drastically to allow for the much...
Chief Collectors, Collectors to meet Bajwa on April 11
ISLAMABAD: Meeting of Chief Collectors and Collectors of Customs would be held on Friday April 11 to check revenue leakage...
Amid reluctance treasury agrees to MPs’ tax probe
ISLAMABAD: Despite reluctance to a perceived attempt to ‘belittle’ parliament, the treasury benches joined the Opposition in adoption of a...
Details of 0.85m taxpayers: FBR all set to publish Tax Directory on 15th
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue will make public details about annual income and tax paid by all 0.85 million...
Lack of data sharing by FBR delaying policy pattern
ISLAMABAD: Ministry of Textile and Industry has written a comprehensive letter to the Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar in which...
FBR to gather budget proposals by April 15
ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue has demanded the proposals for upcoming budget from all the stake holders till 15th of...
Dastgir announces July-Feb trade deficit at $12.542b
ISLAMABAD: Federal Commerce Minister Khurram Dastgir has announced the trade deficit for the first eight months of the current fiscal...
Afghans doing businesses sans FBR registration
ISLAMABAD: State Minister for Frontiers Lt-Gen (r) Abdul Qadir Baloch said that Afghan refugees were running their businesses in the...
Accounts audit likely to be made mandatory for e-filing of IT returns
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is planning binding taxpayers to get their accounts audited by professional accountant firms...
Indicators point to healthy Pak economic growth: Ishaq Dar
ISLAMABAD: Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has said that the impressive macro-economic indicators, as monitored and assessed by international financial...
Tax evasion: I&I-IR digs deeper amid arrest of two executives
ISLAMABAD: In what is being described as the landmark achievement to unearth tax evasion by an international IT giant, the...
Illegal excisable goods trade: Swiss firm offers help to combat menace
ISLAMABAD: A Swiss company has offered to help the tax authorities illegal trade through introduction security marking, tax stamps and...
CGT on disposal of securities: FBR not to cap rate in budget
ISLAMABAD: The government has no intention to freeze the rate of Capital Gains Tax (CGT) on disposal of securities (Tax...
Tax evasion: IT firm’s executives in Adiala Jail on remand
ISLAMABAD: The two top executives of an international IT firm, busted by the Intelligence and Investigation Inland Revenue (IR) on...
Amend to AML Act: FBR pinpoints 26 tax offences under IR laws
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue has pinpointed 26 serious tax crimes pertaining to all the three Inland Revenue laws...
