The federal government has decided to tighten noose for non-tax filer, proposing a ban on their foreign travelling. The non-filers will have to pay 75 percent tax on mobile phone calls as proposed in the budget.
The sources said that that there is also a proposal to end the tax exemption on electric vehicles worth more than USD 50,000. To get non-filers into the tax net, the federal government has also suggested levying additional tax on non-filers in order to bring them in the tax net. The FBR is aiming to crease tax revenue through the enforcement It is pertinent to mention here that the Federal Board of Revenue has blocked SIM cards of the non-filers in the first phase and their electricity and gas connections might also be disconnected in the second phase. The board would issue notices to them.
“In case of no reply from them, the non-filers mobile phone sims, electricity and gas will be disconnected,” according to sources. “The process of blocking sims of non-filers will continue in the next financial year,” sources said.
