The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has received 1.8 million income tax returns with wealth statements till Dec 8, 2020, FBR’s latest compiled data revealed.
During the last year, nearly 2.7 million income tax returns were filed. The FBR has not extended the date for filing of returns.
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The FBR has clarified that the so-called income tax circular no. 20 of 2020 is fake.
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It will be extended. Otherwise, they are just encouraging people to remain non-filers.
As such, it should be the job of FBR to compile and file data based on the data available to them and determine if any deficient tax amount remains, not citizens.
What did this futile exercise achieve, the filers above 60 lack the knowledge and skill to file as per book returns. They run to people who can do it, most who can do it are not fully conversant with tax filing process and charge hefty fees to do it. My advise desist from being a filer it is just another way of pestering ordinary Pakistani senior citizens. Even if they become filers they will be haunted for the rest of their lives clarifying errors in declarations.
I agree. You completely described the tragedy faced by my parents.
Isn’t this pitiful. Why should the senior citizens especially and even any other citizen be made to suffer torture and agony like this. The entire system here is a mess; be it the LEAs such as the corrupt police, banking sector, education, medical & hospices being run as hefty profitable businesses, local governments, judiciary, all tax authorities, cellular companies, utility companies & all such institutions & the service providers, etc. etc. all the expense of the citizens. Very unfortunate..
Well said, Omer. The government whether federal or provincial, have taken us – the citizens for granted.
I fail to agree with the comments above. It is a global practice that people take the services of a tax consultants and file taxes themselves. It is never the job of a revenue board to do it for them, the citizens have to do it.
On the other hand, i hope the date is not extended as it will set a precedence that once the date is set, there will be no extensions and people should understand/follow it for the future.
Totally agreed
That’s correct. Agree totally
I do agree with you but I think that the forms can be and should be made simpler.