Notices issued to 3,300 farmers

MULTAN: Deputy Commissioner Amir Khattak ordered officials, on Tuesday, to issue notices to 3,300 farmers to file agriculture income returns after Board of Revenue (BoR) set new standards for assessment of taxable agriculture income.

Assistant Commissioner (AC) Shahzad Mehboob said that new instructions had been received from BoR to ensure 100 per cent recovery of agriculture income tax and powers of ACs have been enhanced, according to a handout issued.

Farmers would be told to file a return with the offices of ACs concerned till December 16. In case of failure, assistant commissioners would themselves visit farmers for assessment of agriculture income and tax. The AC said that 3,300 farmers were being issued notices and 2,200 of them belong to Multan Saddar tehsil.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 11^th, 2019.