SIALKOT: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Regional Tax Office (RTO) in Gujranwala has frozen the bank accounts of as many as 15 tax defaulters who had either not paid their due tax or mis-declared their assets.
As per the detail, Gujranwala RTO also impounded more than 25 luxury vehicles of tax defaulters in the region to recover the evaded amount.
All the tax defaulters belong to Sialkot, Narowal, Gujrat, Mandi Bahauddin, Hafizabad and Gujranwala districts of Gujranwala Division.
On the other hand, the FBR has issued the arrest warrants of as many as 18 traders and industrialists of the region on short payment of taxes, while the department has given a three-day deadline to 10 defaulters to pay the taxes.
On the special directives of Gujranwala RTO Inland Revenue (IR) Chief Commissioner Mansur Ahmed Bajwa, the special teams of IR led by Sheikh Muneer Ahmed contacted the local banks for freezing the accounts of aforementioned defaulters to recover the outstanding arrears.
Moreover, the special teams of the departments would attach the bank accounts of almost 28 non-compilers who concealed the facts about their sources of income, besides, not paying their income taxes.
According to the Gujranwala Income Tax Additional Commissioner Waqas Aslam, the arrests of the above-mentioned defaulters would be started very soon, if they remained unable to pay their outstanding dues.
