The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is set to tighten the noose around non-filers with a series of stringent measures.
Sources told ProPakistani that in the first phase, the mobile SIM cards and mobile phones of non-filers will be blocked. In this regard the FBR will issue the Income Tax General order by January 15, the sources added.
The FBR is also devising a strategy to cut electricity connections of non-filers. For now, the FBR doesn’t have complete data on the electricity connections of non-filers. The FBR is also apprehensive that cutting electricity connections can result in legal challenges.
It is pertinent to mention here that FBR created history by collecting Rs. 1,021 billion in a single month (December 2023) for the first time.
According to an official statement released by the FBR, targets for the month as well as for the first six months of the current financial year were also surpassed.
There is a problem which is being ignored by FBR that there are many Filers who are living in their residences but the electricity bills are not in their names rather in the name of first owners of that property.
Fbr also don’t understand that we non filers are paying extra tax in bills we need refund of that.
Yes, just file the income tax and have that extra tax adjusted.
to ap na lo jinko leni ha unky liay hai servicer available
Tax refund is fraud and scam. They don’t give refund !!! You need to adopt a rigorous process to listen NO at the end.
Who wapda walo ko 10000rs rishwat da kar CHANGE OF NAME ki application da kar change karwaya , shukriya
Fristly Govt. Must ensure that high end people ( big bank accounts holders, big tax payeers, big utility bills receivers) be filler.
Approx. 10,000 FBR employees are Non-Filer.
We can file ourselves so no need for your services.
to ap na lo jinko leni ha unky liay hai servicer available
badmashi hai bhae wahh
wese advance income tax kat lete hain to
filer or nonfiler me farq kia ha
By legal definition even a small shopkeeper is liable to file returns but fbr failed to provide an easy process for people with no education. To date fbr portal completely lack real world examples of income source heads etc in their own system. Fbr should first provide simple way for large people to file return without hiring tax consultant otherwise the whole idea is day dreaming.
Khob blackmail karo awam ko. Hum bhe election mai vote nahi deein gaay. Electricity, gas, bank transaction, par with holding tax, daily use items par tax, very expensive medicines aur oun par bhe tax ….. Tum log hum ko kya facilities daay rahay ho return mai. Bas awam ko parayshan aur uljha
ke rakha hua hai.
What about rented properties, owner is non filer and electricity connection in his name but the person who residing on rent in that property and he is filer also?
economy will worsen with these aggressive tactics. Learn from countries like UAE where tax is low and attracts billions of investment from all over the world including from pakistanis
here tax way too high we need to learn from UAE.
They are the people who only learn how to collect more and more money and make it available for their masters corruptions.
Lol. Good luck with blocking phones and sim and get ready for the wrath of people. People often use sims that are in the name of their family members. Even those clowns working at FBR knows this thing.
Already they have ruined electricity system with so many taxes every month we have to pay taxes.
Poorly conceived idea. This will not do good to the people rather will create problems for them
When NADRA is having complete data base of Pakistanis, why don’t FBR ask them to help in sorting this out.
There is NO country in the world who blocks SIMs of Non Filers , there are better ways of doing this ….. If you can’t make/conceive policy, COPY paste at least
FBR should also know that we people already pay tax even we buy a match no matter if we are filer or not, when we buy phone we pay all custom duty taxes thats why they are pta approved, we pay double tax cause of being non filers on buying propert ,we are charged tax when we withdraw more than 50 thousand ruppes from bank then what else they want? how can an fbr block our phones,bills and sims which are already double tax payed
Plz recommend iPhone