MULTAN: Multan Tax Bar Association President Khawaja Abdul Mueed has shown concerns over the tax amnesty scheme of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) for not announcing any package for filers.
During the visit of Special Assistant to Prime Minister Haroon Akhtar Khan, Mueed had asked for conducting an awareness campaign about the volunteer tax compliance scheme to bring non-filers into the tax net.
He said that the government is offering all sort of benefits to non-filers only and there is no attraction for the tax filers in this tax amnesty scheme. The government should also announce incentives for the regular taxpayers to win their trust, he said.
He told that existing tax -filers are also the citizens of this country and government should give them few benefits in the tax amnesty scheme to satisfy tax-payers. Those who have filed their tax returns they are asking question from each other that why we are not eligible for this tax amnesty scheme. Although it is a good scheme to broaden the tax net of country but we need to eliminate ambiguity from this plan.
He requested from government to draft any tax amnesty scheme for current filers which are paying their taxes on time. He demanded that government should give incentives to filers in this scheme to project positive perception about tax amnesty scheme.
