LAHORE: Federal Board of Revenue’s Member Inland Revenue Service and Official Spokesman Shahid Hussain Asad had said that FBR has collected tax to the tune of Rs 1,745 billion by April 30, as compared to Rs 1,505 billion in the previous year in the same duration as that of first ten months.
He said that 530 billion rupees will have to be collected in the remaining two months of the current fiscal year, adding that the target will be achieved.
Shahid Hussain said that Pakistan has an understanding with IMF that one hundred thousand more people are to be brought under tax net. 91,000 people have already been added to the tax net so far.