ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue is going to publish Annual Tax Directory 2016 after two year delay.
Sources said that the diary is ready to be published and it will be available on the FBR’s website after being published. The country’s top revenue authority is also mulling to publish the top-100 taxpayers’ list. This list was published first time in 2013, they added.
Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar had announced publishing the tax directory of parliamentarians and general taxpayers at the end of February every year. However, the government could not do so. The government had issued the tax directory for 2014 on April10, 2015. According to Tax Directory 2014, as many as 1,040 of the 1,169 lawmakers filed their tax returns. The parliamentarians’ tax directory has tax details of all members of the Senate, National Assembly and provincial assemblies.
The annual tax directory shows exact details all the citizens who file their tax returns with the FBR every year. The directory contains names, national tax numbers (NTM) along with the amounts paid by each taxpayer to the exchequer.