Staff Reporter
Karachi
Chief Commissioner Inland Revenue (IR) of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), Dr. Aftab Imam has applauded the industrialist and business community for their cooperation for tax collection despite the troubled economic condition.
He was speaking to a gathering of industrialist at Korangi Association of Trade & Industry (KATI) here on Monday. President of KATI Sheikh Umer Rehan, Chairman & CEO KITE Zubair Chhaya, Head of KATI’s committee on FBR & Taxation Rahisd Siddiqui, Zahid Saeed, Masood Siddiqui, Senior Vice President Muhammad Ikram Rajput and Vice President Syed Wajid Hussain also expressed their views.
Dr. Aftab Imam has said that cooperation of Business community is appreciable and also well needed for more expansion in tax net. He told that more than 1 billion rupees of tax refund had issued to exporters. He underscored the role of business community and industrialist for improvement in tax policy and procedures.
Dr. Aftab said that the top most priority of FBR is to expend tax net of the county but also reforming tax regime to provide viable environment for growth of industry and business as well. President of KATI Sheikh Umer Rehan said that there is need to incentivize taxpayers to gain confidence of new taxpayers, it would also help in expending tax net. He also mentioned that for healthy competition tax policy should be similar for all industries.
