LAHORE: Chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Jahanzaib Khan visited Regional Tax Offices of the provincial metropolitan on Friday to review revenue collection measures.
During his visit, he directed to use all available resources to recover outstanding and evaded tax amount from tax evaders. Chief Commissioner Large Taxpayers Unit Asim Majeed Khan, Chief Commissioner Regional Tax Office-II Sadia Sadaf Gillani, Chief Commissioner Regional Tax Office Syed Nadeem Rizvi, Commissioner Ayesha Imran Butt, Khalid Butt attended the meeting.
Chairman Jahanzaib Khan directed chief commissioners that action should be taken against those who purchased luxury vehicles and residences but deliberately avoided to clear the outstanding dues and taxes. He directed that withholding tax cases should be concluded without any further delay.
President Lahore Tax Bar Association Monim Sultan, General Secretary Athar Naveed Kiani, Senior Vice President Rehan Sarwar, Finance Secretary Aneeb Akhtar Ansari also called on the FBR chairman and discussed various issues being faced by taxpayers.
They appealed to the Chairman Federal Board of Revenue to extend the last date for filing of income tax returns but he said that currently there is no proposal to extend the last date of filing of tax returns.
