LAHORE: The Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) has adjourned the hearing of a case filed by M/s Zipper International (Private) Limited, for one month.
According to the details, Advisor to Federal Tax Ombudsman Munir Qurashi heard the case of M/s Zipper International in which the counsel for the appellant argued that the Regional Tax Office (RTO) Gujranwala has failed to make payment of tax refund claims to the company during the last three years.
He said that Regional Tax Office has collected excessive tax from M/s Zipper International (Pvt) Ltd from last three years and it approached many time before the commissioner concerned for refunds but RTO Gujranwala authorities did not pay the refunds claims after the passage of time.
The counsel of above said ompany argued that at the end we decided to approach Federal Tax Ombudsman to interfere in this case and direct Regional Tax Office (RTO) Gujranwala authorities to clear our refund claims as early as possible. The counsel of Zipper International said that Regional Tax Office should refund the excess collection at the end of year but failed to do so.
While on the other side Regional Tax Office representative argued that the appellant M/s Zipper International (Pvt) Ltd, has not submitted all the record in the Regional Tax Office on the basis the company is submitting its claim for refunds. If appellant provide accurate record in Regional Tax Office then RTO will check the record and refund the extra tax to M/s Zipper International (Pvt) Ltd, after assessment.
After hearing the arguments from both sides the Adviser of Federal Tax Ombudsman Muneer Qureshi adjourned the case till next date for further hearing and directed the parties to appear on said date for further hearing.
