LAHORE: The Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) organised fresh balloting of Amanat Scheme (of the Restaurant Invoice Monitoring System) and handed over prizes to the winning candidates of the previously conducted balloting.
Seeveral prizes including cars, motorcycles, Umrah tickets, cell phones, tablets, LED television sets, and others were distributed among the winners at a ceremony held at 90 Shahrah-e-Quaid-e-Azam.
The 16th, 17th and 18th balloting was performed while winners of 13th, 14th and 15th balloting were awarded prizes.
Punjab Minister for Human Rights and Minorities Khalil Tahir Sandhu said the Punjab government is determined and working hard to build a society based on the principles of social and economic justice. The minister congratulated the PRA in introducing this innovative and exciting way for generating taxes and spreading tax awareness amongst the masses.
PRA Chairman Dr Raheal Siddiqui said the success of RIMS can be gauged from the fact that more than 600 restaurants are now connected with the software in a very short time period. He further said the credit of this tremendous success goes to Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif and Minister Finance Dr Aisha Ghous Pasha.
The minister was of the view that the to collect tax is the most difficult thing, saying the gifting scheme linking to sales invoice is good step to motivate people to pay tax and contribute towards the development of the province. He said that it is mandatory in majority of the countries to bring people into tax net to achieve social sector development and so should be the case in Pakistan.
