ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has decided to launch a series of meetings with representatives of traders associations to address concerns of small traders.
According to sources, in this regard a combined meeting of traders’ representatives and senior officers of FBR will be held on January 22, at FBR House.
In the meeting, the chairperson and other senior officers of FBR will brief the traders about the progress on the agreement with the traders and will take them into confidence.
It is worth mentioning that the FBR and traders associations signed an agreement on October 30, 2019 in which 11-point was agreed by the both sides to bring small traders and shopkeepers into the tax net through introduction of fixed tax and simple income tax return form.
The sources said that representatives of traders and the FBR officers would hold a combined meeting on January 24, 2020 at Regional Office Islamabad/Rawalpindi, January 27, 2020 at Karachi, January 29, 2020 at Multan, January 30, 2020 at Faisalabad and January 31, 2020 at Lahore Regional Office.
The sources said that an important meeting between representatives of Trade Associations and Senior officers of Federal Board of Revenue was held last week at FBR House Islamabad.
The traders’ representatives included Kashif Chaudhry, Naeem Mir and Ajmal Baloch whereas FBR team was led by Acting Chairperson FBR Nausheen Amjad and included Member IR Policy Dr. Hamid Ateeq Sarwar and DG Retail Hameed Memon.
It was agreed in the meeting that committees established throughout Pakistan will be completed in coming two days.
The meeting had discussed issues arising due to turnover tax and decided the issue would be analyzed afresh in the future meeting with the tyre, mobile, ghee, sugar, pulses etc, cement, fertilizer, electronics, yarn, iron steel, paper, automobile and other sectors.
