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Luxury cars: FBR bracing for targeted swoop on individuals
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue has decided to tighten noose around ‘big fishes’ who have made huge investments in...
FBR swings into action to clear export consignment of wood products
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue has swing into action to clear the export consignment, comprising finished wood products withheld...
Transfer of six PCS officers announced
ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue has announced transfer of officers in Pakistan Customs Service through a notification. Following are the...
PIA to pay taxes on leased aircrafts in instalments
ISLAMABAD: Economic Co-ordination Committee of the Federal Cabinet has allowed Pakistan International Airlines to pay taxes on leased aircraft on...
Govt reiterates its commitments to IMF
ISLAMABAD: Government of Pakistan has reiterated its commitments to International Monetary Fund through a letter of intent recently published by...
PM appoints new BoI chairman
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has appointed Miftah Ismail as Chairman Board of Investment on an honorary basis. This was...
IMF not happy with PM’s tax incentive packages
ISLAMABAD: International Monetary Fund has expressed apprehensions over Prime Minister’s tax incentive package. According to the IMF's supplementary appraisal “first...
PAC chief asked to take action to retrieve FBR 4,000 acre land
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Revenue Alliance Employees Union has asked the National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee’s Chairman Syed Khursheed Shah to...
Revenue wizards poised to rationalise concessionary SROs
ISLAMABAD: The government has constituted a high-level committee under the chair of Finance Minister Ishaq Dar to pave the way...
Tax defaulters: Defying court verdict may get FBR into hot water
ISLAMABAD: Defiance of the Lahore High Court like to get the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) into hot water over...
FBR takes strong exception to negative profiling of its workforce
ISLAMABAD: The FBR has refuted the negative profiling of its entire workforce in some sections of the print media and...
Carrying forex: NTN likely to be made mandatory
ISLAMABAD: The National Tax Number (NTN) is likely to be declared mandatory for carrying foreign exchange during foreign tours in...
Reforms in taxation system can produce better results: Senator Jaffar Iqbal
ISLAMABAD: Chaudhry Mohammad Jaffar Iqbal, Senator of ruling party PML-N and an important member of Senate’s Standing Committee on Commerce,...
FBR estimating cost of exemptions in FY 2013-14
ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue is trying to find out the total cost of exemptions on income tax, sales tax...
SRO 896 (I)/2013 draws manufacturers’ ire
ISLAMABAD: The embattled manufacturing sector has shown its concern over the FBR move to slap 2 percent extra-tax on manufacturers’...
Man held with 1kg heroin, 100 capsules in stomach
RAWALPINDI: The Airport Security Force (ASF) recovered one kilogramme of heroin from a passenger at Benazir Bhutto International Airport. The...
Sales taxes collection up 22.8pc in 1st half of FY13-14
ISLAMABAD: The collection of all federal taxes, especially the Sales Tax, has recorded a substantial growth in the first half...
Higher tax revenue to overcome economic crunch: Dastgir
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Commerce and Textile Engineer Khurram Dastgir said that the government is trying to widen the tax net...
Dar resigns as Convener of Transition Committee of Hospital
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Finance Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar has resigned as Convener of the Transition/Management Committee on Sheikh Zayed...
Customs duty reduced on goods imported from SAARC members
ISLAMABAD: Government has announced tariff concessions on the import of additional 340 items, which includes crude oil from South Asian...
