LAHORE: The Federal Board of Revenue has frozen the bank account of the Punjab Wildlife Department and recovered Rs3.5million.
According to sources of Customs Today, the FBR had issued many notices to Punjab Wildlife Department for payment of income tax for the year 2015 but its management did not pay any attention towards the said notices.
Now FBR has deducted the amount from the bank accounts of the Highway Department. The action was taken by Deputy Commissioner Abdul Rauf Mayo and Inspector Muzafar Ali after attaching the bank account of Punjab Phase-6, Defence Housing Authority Lahore.
In another action, the FBR has also recovered Rs450000 from the bank account of a citizen Iqra Ghazi against the income tax. The FBR sources said Iqra Ghazi has been a defaulter of income tax since 2014. She was served many notices but she did not submit her wealth statements. Iqra Ghazi is a resident of Sabza Zar Lahore and the FBR has taken this action after attaching her account in NIB Allama Iqbal Town branch.
FBR Inspector Waqar Haider Shah and Muhammad Akram Haider executed the action against Iqra Ghazi. Earlier, the FBR had also issued notices to a number of citizens including some engineers, doctors and traders. All of the notices were served against the non-submission of income tax statements from Fiscal Year 2014 to 2016.
