ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue has received 8,985 more returns in a week ended May 21.
The number of active taxpayers has increased to 1,158,460 during the corresponding week as 1,149,475 taxpayers were recorded in the Active Taxpayers List (ATL) a week ago.
FBR sources said that the ATL will increase before this fiscal year end i.e. June 30 as the government is going to announce some tough measures for non-filers of income tax returns in the budget 2017-18. The sources said that the FBR had estimated 1.3 million return filers for tax year 2016 by June 30 this year and 1.8 million before issuing of new ATL in March 2018.
