ISLAMABAD: Two cellular companies, including Ufone and Mobilink, have provided real-time data of withholding tax data to Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), said Minister for Federal Education and Professional Training Baligh ur Rehman while replying to questions at the Senate.
He said so far two Cellular Companies i.e. M/s Pakistan Mobile Communication Limited (Mobilink) and M/s Pakistan Telecom Mobile Limited (PTML) [Ufone] had uploaded their data on the new format.
The minister said the data uploaded by the Pakistan Telecom Mobile Limited contain certain errors. Pakistan Revenue Automation Limited (PRAL) was in contact with PTML for removal of said errors, he said.
He said the remaining two companies i.e. M/s Telenor Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd and M/s CM Pak [Zong] had yet to upload their data and were being pursued to complete the task at an early date.
To a separate question, he said PRAL, the IT arm of FBR in consultation with telecommunication companies had developed a utility which required phone companies to upload withholding data file on agreed format. The phone companies with the intervention of PTA had agreed to upload data on the new format from August 2017, he said.
