SIALKOT: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has chalked out a special plan to recover taxes amounting to Rs 1.3 billion from the defaulter government departments during the current month.
The FBR officials said that the FBR has jazzed up the pace of its ongoing recovery campaign against the different government departments, including Gujranwala Electric Power Company (Gepco), PTCL, SNGPL, Buildings Department, Public Health Engineering Department, Highways Department, seven TMAs of City District Government Gujranwala, two TMAs of Hafizabad , Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Gujranwala, National Savings Center and several private institutions including beverage companies, tiles manufacturing factories, steel furnaces and metal factories.
According to the tax laws, all the government departments were responsible to pay 8 percent of total amount of every development scheme as withholding tax to the FBR, but the departments still remain unable to pay their taxes since long.
THE FBR has set a target of Rs 1.3 billion, including Rs 700 million as income tax and Rs 600 million as sales tax to be recovered from the said government departments in Sialkot and Gujranwala.
