RAWALPINDI : RCCI President Dr Shimail Daud Arain, while rejecting the tax amnesty scheme by FBR, said that the board was facilitating the tax evaders instead of taxpayers. FBR was likely to be failed to achieve its target of tax collection and now trying to use unethical ways and threatening by sending illegal notices to taxpayers which were totally unjustified. He said that in every civilised country all facilities are being provided to taxpayers but in Pakistan; ineligible and incapable department like FBR showers his blessings on tax evaders and tease taxpayers through different tactics.
Dr Shimail said that notices were being served without any prior investigation of the cases and no attention was being paid to listen the second party arguments. It seemed that board has become wild to achieve its target.
“The FBR is behaving and reminding the era of dictatorship but now it is democratically elected regime and such thing just cannot work,” he said adding that the country was having 8 per cent tax to GDP ratio and government has set to achieve 15 per cent target. If FBR continued with such tactics, it could be slipped under 8 per cent.
Rawalpindi Chamber strongly condemned FBR current role of allowing people to make their black money into white and demoralise the taxpayer community with their notorious strategies.
He said that Chamber was intact with all Chambers of the country in this regard and would announce soon a joint line of action to address the issue.