ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue government is going to launch new tax directory of the parliamentarians and general taxpayers in next two weeks.
Federal Finance Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar, in a press conference, announced that the federal cabinet had decided to publish tax directory of the parliamentarians and general taxpayers for tax year 2015 in next 15 days.
The finance minister said that Pakistan was the fourth country in the world which was issuing tax directory of the parliamentarians and other taxpayers and was publishing for the last two years.
Meanwhile, the country’s top revenue authority has been mulling to publish the top-100 taxpayers’ list, the sources said, adding that the list was published first time in 2013.
Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar had announced publishing the tax directory of parliamentarians and general taxpayers at the end of February every year. However, the government could not do so. The government had issued the tax directory for 2014 on April10, 2015.
According to Tax Directory 2014, as many as 1,040 of the 1,169 lawmakers filed their tax returns. The parliamentarians’ tax directory has tax details of all members of the Senate, National Assembly and provincial assemblies.
The annual tax directory shows exact details all the citizens who file their tax returns with the FBR every year. The directory contains names, national tax numbers (NTM) along with the amounts paid by each taxpayer to the exchequer.
