Op-Ed

In the wake of fixation of highly challenging tax collection target of Rs 2810 billion in fiscal year 2014-15, the...

BY RAFIULLAH BANGASH (ASSISTANT COLLECTOR): As part of its reform and modernization efforts, the erstwhile Central Board of Revenue (CBR) under the...

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has been facing a gigantic task of collecting Rs603 billion in last two months...

ISLAMABAD: The World Bank and Asian Development Bank have resumed loan programmes after four years hiatus. Both these multilateral financial...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has entered into latest next generation mobile services known as 3G and 4G by selling five lots of...

Under the IMF’s bailout package of $6.64 billion for Pakistan’s struggling economy, the time has come when the government will...

ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue has reportedly decided to act sternly against the tax defaulters amongst the big guns of...

LAHORE: Promotion of tax exemptions culture continues to date despite the commitments of the present government on the contrary policy....

FBR has placed valuation guidelines for selected 136 imported items for all over the country with the objective to discourage...

ISLAMABAD: After pause of seven years, Pakistan has again appeared on the radar screen of global investors by launching $2...

LAHORE: Downward revision in the tax collection target should be a concern for the economic managers who are already sacrificing...

ISLAMABAD: Economists and former in office politicians have warned that the future of Pakistan’s economy is being mortgaged the way...

ISLAMABAD: The FBR will have to collect Rs 772 billion in last quarter (April-June) period in order to achieve revised...

In the aftermath of generous foreign inflows from multilateral creditors such as release of third IMF tranche and bilateral donor...

Islamabad is seriously considering granting Non Discriminatory Market Access (NDMA) status to New Delhi in the aftermath of a lucrative...

ISLAMABAD: The government is all set to fetch at least $1.6 billion into national kitty by auctioning next generation technologies...

With foreign injection of dollars to the tune of $1.5 billion into the country’s forex reserves, the rupee has appreciated...

ISLAMABAD: As truly democratic regime, the PML (N) led government has come forward for resolving the problems of exporters who...

ISLAMABAD: The stuck up of refunds on both sales tax and income tax has again surfaced as major issue confronting...

The government has revised downward its overall fiscal framework in view of expected revenue shortfall faced by the Federal Board...