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Dar urges Pakistani Mission abroad on to woo foreign investors
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar prodded Pakistani Missions abroad to draw attention of the investors to Pakistan where huge potential...
R&A Chief convenes meeting of directorate officers
KARACHI: Chief of Directorate of Reforms and Automation (R&A), FBR Rubina Athar has held a meeting with the Director General...
FBR Union demands early promotion of employees
LAHORE: Alliance Employees Union of the Federal Board of Revenue has submitted a charter of demands with the Chief Commissioner...
Encroachments: KPT, PQA among others sent notices by Sindh Revenue Board
KARACHI: Land Utilisation Department of Sindh has issued notices to Karachi Port Trust, Port Qasim Authority (PQA) and other federal...
3 non-customs paid vehicles seized
LAHORE: Anti-smuggling unit of Model Customs Collectorate Lahore has impounded three non-customs paid vehicles worth Rs 4 million at various...
Isaf containers’ scam: Customs agents bemoan sparing logistic agencies
ISLAMABAD: Customs and borders' agents have expressed reservations over sparing logistic organisations concerned in the investigation into Afghan commercial cargo....
Assets declaration: FBR officials fail to comply with deadline
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue has withdrawn special allowance/double pay package of a large number of officials who failed...
Training on WeBOC for stakeholders of transit trade held
KARACHI: The Pakistan Afghanistan Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PAJCCI) in collaboration with Directorate General of Afghan Transit Trade,...
Unlawful assessment: FTO rues customs appraisers’ performance
ISLAMABAD: Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) Abdur Rauf Chaudhry has expressed serious concern over the performance of customs appraisers and questioned...
Fighting corruption within: FBR mulls setting up P&IMU over
ISLAMABAD: With the aim to ferret out corruption and identify corrupt tax officials through integrity and performance evaluation, the Federal...
FPCCI urges businessmen to pay taxes to save the country
LAHORE: Pakistani businessmen should adopt the habit to paying due taxes even if it leads to minimization of their profits...
Provisional figures for February stand at Rs162bn
ISLAMABAD: Provisional figures of revenue collection for the month of February have been reportedly estimated at Rs 162 billion. The...
FBR comes up with tracking system to check tax evasion
ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue has decided to implement a new tracking system for monitoring the production and clearance of...
Q1 witnesses import pressures, trade deficit increases
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan has released its First Quarterly Report for fiscal year 2013-14 on the State of...
TDAP scam: FIA arrests 45 suspects
ISLAMABAD: Federal Investigation Agency has arrested 45 men for their alleged involvement in what has been termed Rs 1.27 billion...
SECP assures LTBA of resolving shareholders’ issues
LAHORE: Security and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) Additional registrar of Companies Liaqat Ali Dola has assured Lahore Tax Bar...
LCCI, FBR pledge to work together for raising tax to GDP ratio
LAHORE: Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Federal Board of Revenue have decided to work hand-in-hand to raise tax-to-GDP...
ST, FED on beverages: FBR enhances fixed capacity rate
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue has considerably enhanced fixed capacity rates of sales tax and federal excise duty charged...
Pakistan Customs faces SSGC in first match
KARACHI: Pakistan Customs has named their 20-member squad for the Patron’s Trophy Grade-II starting on Saturday, March 1. Customs takes...
Tax Directory: 45 lawmakers yet to file tax returns
ISLAMABAD: As many as 45 parliamentarians including eight MNAs and seven Senators have not yet filed their income tax returns....
