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Tax professionals at Saarc
tax summit
Amanullah Khan
Karachi—Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Federal Minister for Commerce will
inaugurate the SAARC TAX SUMMIT being attended by the tax
professionals from all over South Asian countries on April 15 in
Karachi. The Tax summit has been designed specially for the Business
Community, Tax Consultants, Lawyers and Advisers Chartered
Accountants, Management Accountants, Finance and Tax Personnel of
domestic and multinational enterprises and government officials and
tax administration Authorities, especially the policy makers, they
further pointed out.
The Commerce Minister will speak on ‘Fiscal and Trade policies of
SAARC Region-Vision 2020’. The moot will be organized under the
auspices of the Income Tax Bar Association Karachi (ITBAK) and the
Nutshell Forum. It said that prominent tax professionals from all
the SAARC countries will read papers during the different sessions
of two day summit and will carry out in-depth analysis on the merits
and demerits of the tax system prevailing in the SAARC countries.
In a joint statement about South Asian Tax Summit 2008, Muhammad
Azfar Ahsan (Global, CEO, Nutshell Forum, Abdul Qadir Memon,
President, ITBAK, and S. M. Shabbar Zaidi, President, SAFA said, “We
are appreciative of the speakers who will be coming to Pakistan for
this conference. We are optimistic that the two day South Asian
Summit will provide us a platform to restructure the regional tax
system.
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