MULTAN: Multan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) has lamented non-serious behavior of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) in addressing taxpayers’ grievances.
MCCI President Khawaja Salahuddin has expressed deep concern over neglecting the apex body’s suggestion for setting up a “FBR Help Desk’ at the MCCI House, Multan. He said that the MCCI being the apex national body representing entire trade of South Punjab, Industry, services sectors and receives lot of complaints and issues regarding tax facilitations.
The MCCI members in their individual capacity as well as through this platform launch their complaint, issues, however due to weak, lack of communication the businessmen suffer a lot, hence, it’s very needful to establish “FBR Help Desk” at Federation House Multan
He further said that MCCI sent a letter to Chairman FBR Muhammad Javed Ghani on January 14, 2021 for establishing help desk to address the growing problems and increasing grievances of the business community regarding taxes. Letters of reminder were also sent to Federal Board of Revenue on January 21 and on February 16, 2021, but unfortunately Chairman FBR did not consider it appropriate to reply to any letter.
This raises serious concerns in the business community and the question is, FBR was avoiding timely steps to facilitate traders and address their issues on a priority basis, which is beyond comprehension.
MCCI president urged the Chairman FBR to immediately set up an “FBR Help Desk” to provide facilities to traders and industrialists and solve their problems on time. This will definitely help in resolving tax related grievances and will also increase the revenue
