ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue has issued Annual Tax Directory containing the names of more than 791,621 taxpayers for Tax Year 2013. The directory reveals names/titles, National Tax Numbers (NTNs) and amount of payment of income tax by return filers including individuals, corporations and Associations of Persons. The tax directory has not revealed the annual income of all taxpayers.
The directory has been tabulated from returns filed manually and electronically till April 14, 2014. Manually filed returns have been entered into the system. There may be some discrepancies at the level of filing or data entry. Moreover, a considerable number of manually filed returns could not be entered into the system despite best efforts due to missing identifiers on the returns.
Taxpayers are requested to review their return data and if there is any discrepancy in their published data or the Return is not available in the Directory, it may be brought to the notice of the Member IR-Policy, FBR House, Constitution Avenue, Islamabad, Phone No: 051-9205221; email address: [email protected] by 15 May 2014. Based on this feedback, the final version of the Directory shall be published by June 30, 2014. Till said date, this Directory may be treated as provisional edition, the fore word of the directory read.
Tax experts have congratulated Federal Board of Revenue to have published a directory for all taxpayers. By doing this FBR has achieved an important milestone in providing access to information to the general public which would be helpful in creating a sense of public awareness, motivation and transparency.
