ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is also struggling to collect taxes from the parliamentarians to achieve revenue collection target of Rs2,810 billion for 2014-15.
Sources said that the FBR authorities have written letters to the Chairman Senate, Speaker National Assembly and Speakers of all four provincial assemblies, asking them to ensure filing of income tax returns by the parliamentarians till the December 5 deadline. As per the Tax Directory of Parliamentarians, out of total 1,172 parliamentarians, 1,127 have filed their income tax returns till February 28 this year.
