CM directs action against tax dodgers

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, while presiding over a meeting on agriculture income tax, has said that most of the big companies in private sector and leading businessmen show agriculture income in their tax returns but they do not pay a single penny to the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR). He said the FBR had sent him a report listing over 500 leading businessmen, traders, industrialists and companies, which showed agriculture income in their tax returns. He shared the list with Chief Secretary Rizwan Memon, who also held the charge of senior member Sindh Board of Revenue, and directed him to issue notices to the tax dodgers and collect agriculture income tax from them. Shah also directed the chief secretary to draft an agriculture tax reform bill so that it could be passed by the provincial assembly.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 25^th, 2017.

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